Beijing Road Pedestrian Street
A commercial street on the city's central axis, continuously in use since the Song dynasty: the "Millennium Ancient Road Site", displayed under underground glass covers, layers Song and Ming road surfaces and gatehouse foundations one atop another — direct evidence that Guangzhou has stood on the same site for over 2,200 years
Visitor info
- Ticket
- Free · all day (Millennium Ancient Road Site display)
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
A commercial street on the city's central axis, continuously in use since the Song dynasty: the "Millennium Ancient Road Site", displayed under underground glass covers, layers Song and Ming road surfaces and gatehouse foundations one atop another — direct evidence that Guangzhou has stood on the same site for over 2,200 years. Rows of qilou arcades and dense shops line the street; the Great Buddha Temple (one of the twenty-eight temples of the Southern Han) hides along its side, while the Xinhua Bookstore and the Huifu East Road food side street form a shopping-and-dining route. Free to enter and seamlessly connected to Gongyuanqian metro station, it is a living city sample of "two thousand years on one street".
Getting there: Metro Line 1/2, Gongyuanqian Station
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