Guo's Villa (Guozhuang)
A late-Qing private garden, "the essence of West Lake's classical gardens": the best-preserved private garden on the West Lake shore, it borrows the lake surface for its "mirror opening to the sky" vista; Liangyi Veranda, Jingsu Pavilion and the square pond with winding bridges are exquisitely scaled—a textbook of waterside garden design in Jiangnan
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- 08:00-17:30
- Ticket
- CNY 10
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
A late-Qing private garden, "the essence of West Lake's classical gardens": the best-preserved private garden on the West Lake shore, it borrows the lake surface for its "mirror opening to the sky" vista; Liangyi Veranda, Jingsu Pavilion and the square pond with winding bridges are exquisitely scaled—a textbook of waterside garden design in Jiangnan. Admission CNY 10, beside Yanggong Causeway, with few visitors—ideal for savoring West Lake's quieter side.
Getting there: beside Yanggong Causeway
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More in Hangzhou
- Xixi National Wetland
Boat maze of reeds and water villages west of the city.
- West Lake
UNESCO lake of pagodas, causeways and arched bridges; boat or bike the shoreline.
- Lingyin Temple
Buddhist temple founded 326 AD amid grottoes of Song-era rock carvings.
- Longjing Tea Village
Terraced Dragon Well tea fields; tastings at family farms.
- West Lake Loop
A World Heritage Site (inscribed in 2011): an urban lake with misty hills on three sides and the city on the fourth, dredged in succession by two of its governors, Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo; Su Shi's verse "wishing to compare West Lake to the beauty Xi Shi" made it a byword for Eastern aesthetics
- Su Causeway & Bai Causeway
Su Causeway, 2.8 km long, was built from dredged silt when Su Shi dredged West Lake; six bridges span the lake, with peach trees and willows lining both banks—"Misty Willows over Six Bridges" is the top spring scene