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Jingjiang Princes' Palace & Solitary Beauty Peak 靖江王城·独秀峰Jìngjiāng Wángchéng · Dúxiù Fēng
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Guilin, Guangxi
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Guilin
- Region
- Guangxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Jingjiang Princes' Palace & Solitary Beauty Peak
The walled seat of the Ming-dynasty Princes of Jingjiang, begun in 1372 in the heart of Guilin; its stone walls, gates and hall terraces survive, and the grounds now hold a campus of Guangxi Normal University and an exhibition on the imperial examinations once held here. Inside the walls rises Solitary Beauty Peak, climbed by 306 steps for a view over the city, its cliffs carved with inscriptions including the earliest record of the saying that Guilin's scenery is the finest under heaven. The protected site also takes in the princes' tombs, more than 300 burials at the foot of Yao Mountain east of the city, one of them restored as a museum.
How to get to Jingjiang Princes' Palace & Solitary Beauty Peak
In the centre of Guilin, about 800 m north of Central Square; the princes' tombs lie about 10 km east of the city at the foot of Yao Mountain.
Nearby
- Longji Rice Terraces 龙脊梯田 60 km
Rice paddies stacked up the mountains like the scales on a dragon's back - Li River & Yangshuo 漓江与阳朔 60 km
Limestone peaks, bamboo rafts and bike rides through rice paddies
Also within 20 km: Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army 八路军桂林办事处旧址 (under 10 km), Former Guangxi Provincial Art Hall 广西省立艺术馆旧址 (under 10 km), Song City Wall of Guilin (Dongzhen Gate) 桂林静江府城墙 (under 10 km), Two Rivers and Four Lakes & Elephant Trunk Hill 两江四湖·象山 (under 10 km), Seven Star Park 七星公园 (under 10 km), West Hill Park 西山公园 (under 10 km).
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