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Wangdian Soviet-Style Granaries 王店粮仓群Wángdiàn Liángcāng Qún
National heritage site · Jiaxing, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jiaxing
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wangdian Soviet-Style Granaries
A group of fourteen cylindrical concrete grain silos with six-sided tiled roofs, built in the 1950s with Soviet advice beside the Changshui canal in Wangdian town to store grain for the local rice mill. Each silo is 12 m across and 8.15 m high, set in three staggered rows; left idle after the mill was restructured in 2002, the compound was tidied up in the late 2010s and one of its side buildings became a collectors' market in 2023.
How to get to Wangdian Soviet-Style Granaries
On Tangdong Street in Wangdian town, about 15 km south-west of central Jiaxing and 11 km from Jiaxing South high-speed station.
Nearby
- Wuzhen Water Town 乌镇 30 km
Stone bridges and lantern-lit canals in a water town that's best after dark - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 60 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
Also within 20 km: Majiabang Site and Museum 马家浜遗址 (under 10 km), Huili Temple 惠力寺 (10 km), Meihuazhou 梅花洲 (10 km), Former Residence of Shen Junru 沈钧儒故居 (20 km), South Lake (Nanhu), Jiaxing 南湖 (20 km), Zicheng Citadel Site Park 嘉兴子城 (20 km).
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