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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Panmen City Gate
Panmen City Gate, also known as Pan Gate, is the oldest city gate in Suzhou. Panmen Gate is the oldest city gate of Suzhou and the only existing water and land gate in China. With a history of 2,500 years, Panmen Gate is a famous historical landmark of Suzhou stands at the southwestern corner of the ancient city of Suzhou. It used to be one of the eight city gates during the Spring & Autumn Annals (770-476 BC...
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Tongli Water Town
Built in the Song Dynasty (960-1276), Tongli Water Town is only 20 km Southeast of Suzhou and 80 km West of Shanghai. The town is rich in ancient atmosphere: many of its buildings have kept their traditional façades, with stark white washed walls and black-tiled roofs. The lovely town is neither as famous as Zhouzhuang nor as crowded with visitors, though its pace has picked up since the 1983 when the Chinese filmma...
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Garden of Pleasure
Garden of Pleasure is a representative and complete south-eastern gentry's private garden. It was built during the reign of Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu in Qing dynasty (1862-1908 A.D.); and formerly it was Gu Wenbin's private garden comprising of garden, residence, artificial villages and ancestral halls.The Garden of Pleasure is the most recently built of Suzhou gardens. It absorbs all strong points of other Su...
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Luzhi Old Town
Located in Wuzhong District, 18 kilometers east of Suzhou in east China's Jiangsu province, Luzhi is an old but extremely beautiful water town. With a history of more than 1400 years, it compares favorably to Zhouzhuang Town. Covering just one square kilometer, it has been awarded the great name of "No.1 water town in China". In 2003, the Chinese government published a list of "Ten Famous Chinese Historical...
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Mudu Old Town
Mudu is an old water town located 15 kilometer west to the Suzhou city. With an area of 62 square kilometers, it is a southern Chinese garden town with a history of 2,500 years. There is harmony and unity of the unique natural landscape and cultural landscape, known as the pearl of Taihu Lake Scenic Area, was named one of "China's most interesting places" and "the most popular tourist destination"...
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Suzhou Inscriptions Museum
Suzhou Inscriptions Museum is a thematic class museum which dedicated collects, researches, exhibits and reproduces the ancient inscriptions. The museum's buildings were Suzhou Confucian Temple built in the Northern Song Dynasty, which has nearly a thousand years of history so far.The Suzhou Inscriptions Museum has now become the entire world of inscriptions; there are 1000 pieces steles of all kinds. The 223 economic...