Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery 龙华烈士陵园Lónghuá Lièshì Língyuán

About Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery

A large memorial park beside Longhua Temple that takes in the former Songhu Garrison Command of the Nationalist government, where Communists and left-wing activists were imprisoned and executed between 1927 and 1937, among them 24 people shot on 7 February 1931, including five writers of the League of Left-Wing Writers. The listed memorial site in its north-east corner keeps the 1920 gatehouse, the men's and women's cell blocks and the execution ground, and a memorial hall opened in 1997 presents this history.

How to get to Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery

In Xuhui District next to Longhua Temple, about 400 m from Longhua station (Lines 11 and 12); the memorial hall is closed on Mondays.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Longhua Pagoda 龙华塔 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km), Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence 上海宋庆龄故居 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)