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Fangta Historic Site Area


Fangta Garden is located at the eastern end of Changshu Ancient City, close to Fangta Street, the prosperous commercial street of the ancient city. It is a newly built freehand landscape garden imitating the Song Dynasty on the former site of the historical site of the Song Dynasty. The whole garden covers a total area of about 30000 square meters and is now a national 4A tourist attraction.

The square tower garden is named after the square tower. The square tower, ancient well and ancient ginkgo tree in the garden are also called "the three treasures of the square tower". The square tower is a landmark building in the ancient city of Changshu, formerly known as "Chongjiao Xingfu Tower". It has nine floors on all sides and a brick-wood structure pavilion style with a square plane, commonly known as the square tower. Founded in the fourth year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1130 AD), it has been more than 880 years ago. It is one of the few examples of early feng shui towers in my country. In 2006, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The buildings of the square tower garden are all imitation of the Song Dynasty, gorgeous and atmospheric, coupled with the imitation of the Song Dynasty outside the garden, the momentum is magnificent and prosperous, with the cultural charm of the royal garden; at the same time, it makes full use of a variety of landscape construction techniques such as frame scenery and opposite scenery to show the twists and turns of the Jiangnan garden, poetic and picturesque through the configuration of curved bridge pavilions, Xuan gallery pavilions, water pavilions, mountains, rocks and trees and trees and other elements. The entire scenic spot is south of the Song Fangta as the central axis, and the "Changshu City Stele Inscription Museum" and "Changshu Hall of Fame" are set up in the north. There are more than 500 meters of stele corridors and "Chonglan Cottage", "Yayuju", "Qingyuan Building" and other Song, Ming and Qing style buildings. The west is the second phase development scenic spot of Fangta, which was put into construction in 2002. It follows the construction style of the scenic spot in the early stage, and incorporates the ecological concept. It makes full use of plants for gardening and landscaping. The main buildings include "Wenhua Hall", "Yuexiu Mountain House", "Zui Wei Pavilion", etc.

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