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Whampoa Military Academy Site 黄埔军校旧址Huángpǔ Jūnxiào Jiùzhǐ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Guangzhou, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Guangzhou
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Whampoa Military Academy Site
Sun Yat-sen founded the Army Officer Academy, known as the Whampoa Military Academy, here on Changzhou Island in 1924, in the buildings of a Qing army school, to train officers during the first Kuomintang–Communist alliance. The main school building, bombed in 1938 and rebuilt to its original form in 1996, holds exhibitions on the academy's history and recreated offices, classrooms and dormitories. The site also includes the house where Sun stayed on visits, the academy club hall of 1926 and a memorial to Sun on a nearby hill.
How to get to Whampoa Military Academy Site
On Changzhou Island in the Pearl River, Huangpu District, about 20 km east of central Guangzhou, reached by ferry or by road. Closed on Mondays except public holidays, and visits must be booked in advance.
Nearby
- Canton Tower & Pearl River 广州塔 under 10 km
A slim-waisted tower glowing over the Pearl River in China's Cantonese food capital
Also within 20 km: Lingnan Impression Park 岭南印象园 (under 10 km), Southern Han Mausoleums Museum 南汉二陵 (under 10 km), Nanhai God Temple (Temple of the South Sea God) 南海神庙 (under 10 km), Guangdong Science Center 广东科学中心 (under 10 km), Haizhu National Wetland Park 海珠湿地 (under 10 km), Yuyin Shanfang (Yuyin Garden) 余荫山房 (under 10 km).
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