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Canglang Pavilion 沧浪亭Cānglàng Tíng
National heritage site · Suzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Suzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Canglang Pavilion
The oldest of Suzhou's surviving classical gardens, laid out in the mid-1040s by the Song poet Su Shunqin on the site of a Five Dynasties garden and named after a line in the Songs of Chu about the clear and muddy waters of the Canglang. The garden centres on a wooded earth-and-rock hill, with halls and covered walks around it and a gallery along the canal outside that 'borrows' the water into the view. It also has a hall of stone-carved portraits of famous people linked with Suzhou and a great variety of patterned lattice windows, and is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site.
How to get to Canglang Pavilion
In the south of Suzhou's old city on Canglangting Street, across the road from the Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum), a short taxi or bus ride from the centre.
Nearby
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 苏州园林 under 10 km
Whole landscapes of rock, water and pavilion folded into a city block - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 30 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
Also within 20 km: Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum) 苏州文庙 (under 10 km), Master of the Nets Garden 网师园 (under 10 km), Pan Gate & Ruiguang Pagoda 盘门 (under 10 km), Twin Pagodas (Luohan Temple) 罗汉院双塔 (under 10 km), Old Campus of Soochow University 东吴大学旧址 (under 10 km), Jiachen Lane Brick Pagoda 甲辰巷砖塔 (under 10 km).
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