Castle
Huaiyuan Lou
🇨🇳 China
Huaiyuan Lou is located in Kanxia village, Meilin town, Nanjing county, Zhangzhou city, Fujian province. It was built in the Qing dynasty. It is a double-ringed circular tulou, covering an area of 1,384.7 square metres, with a floor area of 3,468 square metres, and is fairly well preserved. In 2001 it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit of Fujian province, in 2006 as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level, and in 2008 it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site as a typical representative of the Fujian tulou.
Machine-translated from “怀远楼” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huaiyuan Lou ranks #7,644 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #93 of the 119 mapped in China. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Huaiyuan Lou?
Huaiyuan Lou stands in China, at 24.67496°, 117.08945°.
Is Huaiyuan Lou a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Yes — it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, per its Wikidata entry.
How famous is Huaiyuan Lou?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,644 of 8,134 worldwide, and #93 in China. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Huaiyuan Lou?
Fujian Tulou, about 12 km away.
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