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Chiwan Left Fort ranks #8,715 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #84 of the 103 mapped in China. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Shenzhen, 19 km away. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
The Chiwan Left Fort is located on Yingzuishan hill on Zuopaotai Road, Chiwan harbour, Nanshan district, Shenzhen city, Guangdong province, China, and is a municipal- and county-level cultural relic protection unit of Shenzhen city, of the ancient architecture type, dating from the Qing dynasty, announced on 30 May 1983.
The Chiwan Left Fort faces Lingdingyang; the base of its walls is built of granite, and one side of the fort is a raised platform for working the guns. Within the fort's enclosing wall there remain the ruined foundations of the houses in which the soldiers garrisoning the fort lived at the time.
Machine-translated from “赤湾左炮台” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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