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John Rabe House 拉贝故居Lābèi Gùjū
National heritage site · Nanjing, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- About 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Nanjing
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About John Rabe House
The house where John Rabe, the Siemens representative in Nanjing and chairman of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, lived from 1932 to 1938 and wrote his diaries of the Nanjing Massacre; during the massacre he sheltered hundreds of Chinese refugees in the house and its garden. Restored with German support, it opened in 2006 as the John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall, whose photographs, documents and objects tell the story of Rabe and the other foreigners who ran the Safety Zone.
How to get to John Rabe House
At 1 Xiaofenqiao, off Guangzhou Road at the south-east corner of Nanjing University's Gulou campus, a short walk from Zhujianglu station on Metro Line 1. Closed on Mondays.
Nearby
- Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 under 10 km
Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai - City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 under 10 km
The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate - Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 under 10 km
A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb
Also within 20 km: Former Macklin Hospital 马林医院旧址 (under 10 km), University of Nanking Campus 金陵大学旧址 (under 10 km), Drum Tower of Nanjing 南京鼓楼 (under 10 km), Nanjing Great Hall of the People 南京人民大会堂 (under 10 km), Former National Central University 中央大学旧址 (under 10 km), Former Beijige Meteorological Observatory 北极阁气象台旧址 (under 10 km).
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