Xuanwu Gate

Xuanwu Gate is a gate of the Nanjing City Wall of the Ming dynasty and is now the main entrance of Xuanwu Lake Park. In 1910 the Viceroy of Liangjiang Duanfang was organising the Nanyang Industrial Exposition; in order to provide Chinese and foreign guests with a place for recreation, to add sights to visit and to make access to Xuanwu Lake convenient, it was decided to open a new city gate leading to Xuanwu Lake, and to open Xuanwu Lake to the public as the "Five Continents Park"; the work was later taken over by his successor as viceroy, Zhang Rensun, and because Zhang Rensun's native place was Fengrun in Hebei, it was named "Fengrun Gate". In July 1928 it was renamed Xuanwu Gate, a name it has kept ever since. When first opened it was a single arched gate. The following year Cai Yuanpei wrote the inscription over the gate, and in 1934 Xuanwu Gate was rebuilt as a triple arched gate.

Machine-translated from “玄武门 (南京)” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Xuanwu Gate ranks #7,673 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #94 of the 119 mapped in China. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nanjing, 1 km away. See how China compares in the castle statistics.

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