China · 18th century
Tai'an Lou ranks #8,821 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #88 of the 103 mapped in China. Founded 1764, it is older than 15% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
Tai'an Lou is located on Tai'an Road, Huliao town, Dabu county, Meizhou city, Guangdong province, China; it is a square tulou inhabited by the Lan family, built in the twenty-eighth year of the Qianlong era of the Qing (1763), facing south-west with its back to the north-east, 49 metres long and 52.6 metres wide, covering an area of 6,684 square metres, with 200 rooms in all. The walls are built of earth, stone and brick. In 2002 it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong province. On 7 October 2019 it was announced as one of the eighth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.
Machine-translated from “泰安楼” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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