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Nanjing Travel Guide

Travel to Nanjing - Ancient Capital of China

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Capital of Jiangsu Province and lying on the Yangtse River Nanjing has a luminous cultural heritage. The city’s history started in 472BC and spans every dynasty since, several of whom made the city their capital. Nanjing has the longest city walls of anywhere in the world with Zhonghua Gate most famous.

It is also a city of despair. In 1839 the Opium War started and lead to the signing of the notorious Nanjing Treaty, the first of the 'Unequal Treaties' which ceded Hong Kong to the British for more than 100 years. In the Revolution of 1911 Dr.Sun Yat-Sen and his followers overthrew the Qing Dynasty.

Attractions in Nanjing

Sun Yat Sen's Mausoleum is to be found in the city houses a statue of Dr. Sun sculpted from white marble.

In April 1927 Chiang Kaishek launched his counter-revolution and established power in Nanjing and in 1937 the infamous Nanjing Massacre was purpotrated by the Japanese with more than 300,000 Chinese killed. The horrors are remembered in the Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre.

In addition to historical sights, memorials, museums there are many other cultural sights. The famous Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao) is both a memorial to the great sage but a great place to eat out amongst traditional Chinese architecture. Then there’s the Nanjing Museum with a collection of more than 420,000 prized pieces.