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Guanglu Old Town and Longhua Temple 光禄古镇Guānglù Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Chuxiong, Yunnan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chuxiong
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Guanglu Old Town and Longhua Temple
This scenic area covers the old centre of Guanglu, a small town north-west of Yao'an county seat, and Longhua Temple at the town's western edge. First a hermitage housing a reclining Buddha and enlarged in the Yuan dynasty, the temple was destroyed and rebuilt several times; the present buildings date from 1907. Its five-bay main hall contains a large Buddhist shrine canopy, one of the bigger surviving examples.
How to get to Guanglu Old Town and Longhua Temple
About 20 minutes by road north-west of Yao'an county town, which is roughly an hour by road from Chuxiong.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Defeng Temple, Yao'an 德丰寺 (10 km), Dayao White Pagoda 大姚白塔 (20 km).
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