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Wanshou Pagoda 万寿宝塔Wànshòu Bǎotǎ
National heritage site · Jingzhou, Hubei
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jingzhou
- Region
- Hubei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wanshou Pagoda
Wanshou Pagoda is a seven-storey octagonal brick-and-stone tower 40.46 m high, built between 1548 and 1552 for Prince Zhu Xian of Liao to pray for the Jiajing Emperor's long life. It stands on the Jingjiang embankment at Guanyinji, a rocky spur jutting into the Yangtze, and its lowest storey is now buried below the raised dike. Wanshou Park around it also has a 1998 flood memorial pavilion and carved marks of the high-water levels of 1954 and 1998.
How to get to Wanshou Pagoda
In Shashi District on the north bank of the Yangtze beside the Jingzhou Yangtze bridge, about 5 km south-east of Jingzhou old town.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Jingzhou Ancient City 荆州古城 (under 10 km), Three Taoist Temples of Jingzhou 荆州三观 (under 10 km), Jingzhou Ocean World 荆州海洋世界 (under 10 km), Jingzhou Museum 荆州博物馆 (under 10 km), Jingjiang Flood Diversion Sluice, Gong'an 荆江分洪闸 (under 10 km), Jinan City of Chu 楚纪南故城 (10 km).
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