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Huaiyuan Lou ranks #8,621 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #81 of the 103 mapped in China. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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.
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