Popular Suzhou Attractions
Suzhou is a modern city with a historic past. A tour of Suzhou will provide the visitor with much to see and admire from the ancient streets and classical private gardens to modern malls, from traditional arts and crafts to trendy fashion shows, from skyscrapers to parks and museums - Suzhou is a city that combines the historic and the modern in its own unique way.
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Suzhou Gate to the East
The Gate to the East ,or the Gate of the Orient is a 301-meter-high skyscraper in Suzhou City. The East Gate consists two parts of the North Building and South Building; it is a high - rise building of door appearance, with a total height of 300 meters, the two-storey part of building connected at 238 meters. The design for the Gate of the Orient was inspired by the combined Chinese traditions and western influe...
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Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty
A wonderful limestone mountain, the Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty, covering only 2,179 square m., enjoys the same reputation as other famous garden in China. It is located on 272 Jingde Road, inside the Embroidery Museum of Suzhou. In 1997, it was recognized with other classical Suzhou gardens as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.According to the historical records, the limestone mountain was designed and piled...
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Lingering Garden
The Lingering Garden was listed from the first as cultural relics of national importance in 1961. Covering an area of 23,310 ㎡, it is celebrated for its artistic way of dealing with the spaces between various kinds of architectural form. Buildings make up one third of the total area of the garden, the hall of which being the most remarkable in Suzhou. The garden is separated into the middle, eastern, northern and wester...
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Humble Administrator's Garden
Covering 51,950 square meters, the Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest of all classical gardens in Suzhou. It is centered upon the broad expanse of a lake, making up about one fifth of the total area. With well spaced buildings, the garden landscape and waterscape are simple, extensive and natural, possessing the traditional appearances of the Ming Dynasty. It is divided into three parts; the eastern, middle...
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Guangqian Street
Guangqian Street (Guanqian Jie) is a hundred commercial streets formed in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), old shops and boutiques shops are gathered here, which fame spread far and wide and abroad.Located in bustling downtown area in Suzhou, it does boast a Taoist Temple in its center and this street is named after the temple. Guanqian was set to walking street in early 1982; it is the country's first commercial pedestrian...
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Confucian Temple
The Confucian Temple of Suzhou, also known as Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum and Suzhou Prefecture School, is located in the ancient city of Suzhou, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It was built by Fan Zhongyan（989－1052), who was a famous politician, thinker, and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty（960-1127. It was the first temple school in China, and is notable for containing the four greatest steles...
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Retreat and Reflection Garden
The Retreat and Reflection Garden, also translated as the Garden of Quiet Meditation, is located in the old town of Tongli Water Town. The garden's views are simple, but elegant. It's layout follows the topography; it reaches beyond the ordinary. From west to east it is arranged horizontally, with residence on the left, a courtyard in the middle, and garden on the right; the garden's views are thus entered one by one...
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Garden of Cultivation
Started to be built during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the Garden of Cultivation (Yipu Garden) is a small scale garden with artistic characteristics of the Ming Dynasty. The entire garden's layout is plain and open, with a natural and simple style; not overly elaborate and affected. Its artistic value is much higher than the Later Qing gardens in Suzhou. The layout of mountains and waters, pavilions, terraces and...
