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Yuejiang Tower

Yuejiang Tower is close to the Yangtze River. It is located on Lion Mountain, northwest of  Nanjing. At the foot of the Lion Mountain are  the Ming Dynasty city walls and the moats. In  the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang granted the name to this mountain, and  planned to build the Yuejiang Tower on it.

He  wrote an article entitled “Record of Yuejiang  Tower”, but no tower was ever built. In 2001,  Yuejiang Tower was built. It is bright and colorful, and it became one of the city landmarks.

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  • Telephone: 025-58590298
  • Ticket: 40 Yuan
  • Address: No. 202 Jianning Road, Gulou District
  • Open Time: 8:00-17:00
  • Address: Take Bus No. 10, No. 12, No. 21 or No. 54 to Xingzhongmen Stop.
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Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty

Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty is the  tomb buried in the same grave of the founding  emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and his empress surnamed Ma of the Ming Dynasty. It was built  during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.  Construction of the large Xiaoling Tomb lasted  for 38 years. So far, it has gone through 600 years  of vicissitudes.

In 2003, it was included in the  World Heritage List. The Xiaoling Tomb of the  Ming Dynasty is the sole world cultural heritage  site in Nanjing, and it established the standard for  imperial mausoleums of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Besides the main buildings of the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty, the scenic spots  also include the Tomb of Prince Zhu Biao, the  Tomb of Sun Quan, Meihua Mountain, Chiang  Kai-shek’s burial site the Righteousness Pavilion,  the Altar of Six Dynasties and the newly-built  Plum Blossom Valley, etc, taking the culture of  the Ming Dynasty and the culture of ecological  leisure as the main. Meihua Mountain is south of  the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty.

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  • Telephone: 025-84446111
  • Ticket: 70 Yuan/person
  • Address: Zhongshan Scenic Area, Xuanwu District
  • Open Time: (Mar.-Oct.) 6:30-18:30; (Nov.-Feb. the following year) 6:30-18:00
  • Address: Take Subway Line 2 to Muxuyuan Stop or Bus No. 20, 203 or 315 to Mingxiaoling Stop.
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Yangshan Quarry

After Zhu Di seized the throne and became  Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty in 1405,  he decided to erect the “Stele of Divine Merits  and Godly Virtues” for Zhu Yuanzhang. He recruited over ten thousand craftsmen to Yangshan  Quarry.

In two years, they cut three huge pieces  of stele materials: the pedestal of the stele was 17  meters high, 29.5 meters wide, 12 meters thick  and 16,250 tons in weight; the body of the stele  51 meters high, 14.2 meters wide, 4.5 meters  thick and 8,799 tons in weight; and the top part  of the stele was 10.3 meters high, 22 meters wide,  10 meters thick and 6,118 tons in weight. Piled  up, the three pieces would form a huge stele as  high as 78 meters, equal to a 28-storey building  in height. The combined stele even exceeded  30,000 tons. It would be a world wonder. Now,  the Yangshan stele material has been formally  included in the Guinness World Records.

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  • Telephone: 025-84011108
  • Address: Yangshan Quarry Scenic Area, Tangshan Street, Jiangning District
  • Address: Take Bus No. 205.
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Ming Palace Ruins

The Ming Palace, also known as the Forbidden City of Nanjing, flanks the Zhongshan  East Road on the south and north. Covering an  area of over one million square meters, it is considered the blueprint for the Imperial Palace in  Beijing. It was the largest palace in the world in  the Middle Ages (476-1453).  

After experiencing three catastrophes, the  Ming Palace was reduced to broken walls. The  present-day Wuchaomen Park and Ming Palace  Park only contain a very small area of ruins, but  the original magnificient scale of the palace can  still be imagined.

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  • Address: Ming Palace Ruins, Zhongshan East Road, Xuanwu District
  • Address: Take Subway Line 2 to Minggugong Stop, or Bus No. 17, 34, 65, 115, 118 or 173.
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