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Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓Xú Guāngqǐ Mù
National heritage site · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Tomb of Xu Guangqi
The grave of Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), the late-Ming official and scholar who translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and was a leading figure among the Chinese Catholics of his time, buried here with members of his family in 1641. The low oval mound, rebuilt in 2003 to its 1903 form, stands in Guangqi Park near the creek junction where his descendants settled, which gave Xujiahui, the 'Xu family junction', its name.
How to get to Tomb of Xu Guangqi
In Guangqi Park, Xuhui District, about 500 m from Xujiahui station (Lines 1, 9 and 11).
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), Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (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), Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum 宋庆龄陵园 (under 10 km).
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