China · 17th century
Yanyi Wei ranks #8,822 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #89 of the 103 mapped in China. Founded 1650, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 710 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
Yanyi Wei is located below Liyu Fort at Yangcun market, Yangcun town, Longnan city, Ganzhou city, Jiangxi province, China, and was listed in 2001 as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level.
Yanyi Wei was begun by Lai Fuzhi in the seventh year of the Shunzhi era of the Qing (1650) and completed in the sixteenth year of the Kangxi era (1677). It is rectangular in plan, 41.5 metres long and 31.8 metres wide, covering an area of 1,367.6 square metres, with a floor area of 3,741.12 metres. The enclosing wall is 14.3 metres high.
Machine-translated from “燕翼围” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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