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Sheshan Hills 佘山Shéshān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Sheshan Hills
Two low wooded hills, East and West Sheshan, rise from the Songjiang plain and form the core of a national forest park. West Sheshan is crowned by the Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, a Catholic pilgrimage church reached by a path lined with the Stations of the Cross and made a minor basilica in 1942. Beside it stands the Sheshan Observatory, built by French Jesuits in 1899–1901 and since 2004 the Shanghai Astronomical Museum, which reopened in 2023 after two years of restoration with its original 40 cm twin refractor on show.
How to get to Sheshan Hills
In Songjiang District, about an hour from People's Square on Metro Line 9 to Sheshan station, then a short taxi or bus ride to West Sheshan.
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 30 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 30 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 30 km
A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 30 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls - The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 30 km
1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
Also within 20 km: Moon Lake Sculpture Park 月湖雕塑公园 (under 10 km), Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden 上海辰山植物园 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Shanghai 上海欢乐谷 (under 10 km), Guangfulin Culture Park 广富林文化遗址 (under 10 km), Yunbao Future City Art Town 云堡未来市 (under 10 km), Shanghai Smurfs Park 上海蓝精灵乐园 (under 10 km).
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