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Liusheng Pagoda and Old Quanzhou Port Sites 六胜塔Liùshèng Tǎ
National heritage site · Quanzhou, Fujian
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Quanzhou
- Region
- Fujian
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Liusheng Pagoda and Old Quanzhou Port Sites
An octagonal five-storey granite pagoda 36 m high on the southern shore of Quanzhou Bay at Shihu, first built in 1111 and rebuilt in 1285 as a landmark for ships, its storeys carved with guardian figures and bodhisattvas. About 1 km away is Shihu Dock, an old wharf said to date from the Tang. Both belong to a national heritage group of old port buildings that also includes Wanshou Pagoda on Baogai Mountain and Zhenwu Temple with the Song docks at Fashi in Quanzhou city, all components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site.
How to get to Liusheng Pagoda and Old Quanzhou Port Sites
In Shihu village, Hanjiang town, Shishi, about 25 km south-east of central Quanzhou by road; Zhenwu Temple is in Fashi on the city's riverside, about 5 km south-east of Kaiyuan Temple.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Quanzhou Oulebao Ocean Kingdom 泉州欧乐堡海洋王国 (under 10 km), Baogai Mountain 宝盖山 (10 km), Ding Family Ancestral Hall, Chendai 陈埭丁氏宗祠 (10 km), Jingsheng Villa 景胜别墅 (10 km), Wulin Traditional Village 梧林传统村落 (10 km), Wudianshi Historic Quarter 五店市 (10 km).
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