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Zhenze Ancient Town & Ciyun Temple Pagoda 震泽古镇Zhènzé Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Suzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Suzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Zhenze Ancient Town & Ciyun Temple Pagoda
A former silk town in the south-west of Wujiang on the Zhejiang border, a national historic and cultural town whose old quarter centres on Baota Street. Its landmark is the pagoda of Ciyun Temple on that street, a six-sided, five-storey brick-and-timber tower, mostly Ming in date, which alone survived when the temple was burnt in the wars of the 1850s; the temple has since been partly restored. Nearby is Shijian Hall, a merchant family's compound that combines a rice warehouse on the water, shops, living quarters and a small garden.
How to get to Zhenze Ancient Town & Ciyun Temple Pagoda
About an hour by road south of central Suzhou, in Zhenze town in the far south-west of Wujiang district.
Nearby
- Wuzhen Water Town 乌镇 20 km
Stone bridges and lantern-lit canals in a water town that's best after dark - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 40 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls - Classical Gardens of Suzhou 苏州园林 50 km
Whole landscapes of rock, water and pavilion folded into a city block
Also within 20 km: Shijian Hall 师俭堂 (under 10 km), Nanxun Ancient Town 南浔古镇 (under 10 km), Dongmiao Bridge 东庙桥 (10 km), Grand Canal at Pingwang (Wujiang Canal Culture Area) 吴江运河文化旅游区 (10 km), Xiancan Temple (Silk Patrons' Shrine), Shengze 先蚕祠 (20 km), Zijin Nunnery 紫金庵 (20 km).
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