Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源Xújiāhuì Yuán

About Xujiahui Origin heritage area

An open-street scenic area, rated 4A in 2012, that links the historic buildings and museums of Xujiahui, the district named after the descendants of the Ming scholar Xu Guangqi who settled here. Besides St Ignatius Cathedral and Xu's tomb in Guangqi Park, its sites include the Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei library of the old Jesuit mission, the former Xujiahui Observatory, now the Shanghai Meteorological Museum, the T'ou-Sè-Wè Museum and the Pathé building where the national anthem, The March of the Volunteers, was first recorded. It also takes in the Shanghai Film Museum and the historic Jiao Tong University campus.

How to get to Xujiahui Origin heritage area

Around Xujiahui station (Lines 1, 9 and 11) in Xuhui District, with the sites spread through the surrounding streets.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 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 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence 上海宋庆龄故居 (under 10 km), Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery 龙华烈士陵园 (under 10 km), Longhua Pagoda 龙华塔 (under 10 km).

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