Fortress
Jinxianmen Gate Tower
🇨🇳 China · 17th century
Jinxian Gate (simplified Chinese: 进贤门; traditional Chinese: 進賢門; pinyin: Jìnxián Mén; lit. 'enter wise gate'), or Jinxianmen Gate Tower (simplified Chinese: 进贤门城楼; traditional Chinese: 進賢門城樓), commonly known as the "Red Pavilion" (红亭), is a landmark building in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, China. It is located on Huancheng Road, Rongcheng District. The gate, at 16.77 meters high and built of pure fir structure, is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.
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Jinxianmen Gate Tower ranks #4,975 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #73 of the 120 mapped in China. Founded 1621, it is older than 33% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 399 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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