Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming 抗战胜利纪念堂Kàngzhàn Shènglì Jìniàntáng

About Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming

A palace-style hall blending Chinese and Western elements, completed in January 1946 on the site of the Qing Yunnan–Guizhou governor's office to mark victory in the war against Japan; from 1950 it was called the People's Victory Hall. Its central hall is planned in the shape of a warplane, and with the curved buildings around it the layout evokes a raised cup, a reference to the wartime 'Hump' airlift. A 27-metre monument to the people's heroes, completed in 1995, stands at the south end, with a memorial exhibition room in the space beneath its base.

How to get to Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming

In central Kunming between Guanghua Street and Renmin Middle Road, less than 1 km south of Green Lake.

Nearby

• Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
  Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
• Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 10 km
  Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake
• Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
  Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes

Also within 20 km: Fulintang Pharmacy 福林堂 (under 10 km), Lu Han's Mansion 卢汉公馆 (under 10 km), Yunnan Military Academy 云南陆军讲武堂 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km), Huize Hall, Yunnan University 会泽院 (under 10 km), Former Site of National Southwest Associated University 国立西南联合大学旧址 (under 10 km).

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