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Leifeng Pagoda 雷峰塔Léifēng Tǎ
4A scenic area · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Leifeng Pagoda
A pagoda on Sunset Hill on the south shore of West Lake, rebuilt in 2002 over the ruins of the brick tower that the Wuyue king Qian Chu completed in the 970s and that collapsed in 1924. The new steel-framed tower, reached by escalators and served by lifts, preserves the base of the original inside, and the pagoda is famous as the prison of the White Lady in the Legend of the White Snake.
How to get to Leifeng Pagoda
On the south shore of West Lake opposite Jingci Temple, about 3 km by road from the lakeside centre at Hubin.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 under 10 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 under 10 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Zhejiang Art Museum 浙江美术馆 (under 10 km), China National Silk Museum 中国丝绸博物馆 (under 10 km), Hangzhou Confucian Temple & Forest of Steles 杭州孔庙碑林 (under 10 km), Mahakala Carving at Baocheng Temple 宝成寺麻曷葛剌造像 (under 10 km), Southern Hills Carvings (Ciyunling, Yanxia Cave, Tianlong Temple) 西湖南山造像 (under 10 km), Tomb of Yu Qian 于谦墓 (under 10 km).
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