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Qiantong Ancient Town 前童古镇Qiántóng Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · Ningbo, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Ningbo
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Qiantong Ancient Town
An old clan town in the hills of south-west Ninghai, founded when the Tong family settled here in 1233; about eight in ten residents still bear the surname. Lanes of Ming and Qing houses are laced with small channels fed by the Baixi and Lianghuang streams, and the Tong ancestral hall dates from 1385. It makes an unhurried half-day of old courtyards, stone bridges and village life.
How to get to Qiantong Ancient Town
About half an hour by road south-west of Ninghai town, whose railway station is on the coastal line south from Ningbo.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Ancient Opera Stages of Ninghai 宁海古戏台 (20 km), Ninghai Forest Hot Spring 宁海森林温泉 (20 km).
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