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Area:The Bund Character: History and Culture Must-see For Couples For Family With your kids For Travel alone For Senior For Young People For Groups
Genre: Popular Sights Stroll Great ViewLocated in the Huangpu District of Shanghai city center, is the tourist area of Shanghai's best. Zhongshan Yi Road which runs along the Huangpu River west coast, total length is about 1.1km. Concession area is a former (Shanghai Concession), Western style high rise building, which was built at that time these are lined to this area. Bank and government are built because it was the center of the economy and government in the concession period, but the bars and restaurants that the sale and flagship stores such as Cartier and Giorgio Armani, the nostalgic atmosphere in the concession period. It becomes to enter into the building, you are being turned into a stylish city.
The "Bund" means "the banks of the foreigners." The beginning is the UK concession, and became a co-concession both the United Kingdom and the United States are jointly in 1854. Architecture Rush visit the Bund became the hub of finance in East Asia through the first half of the 20th century between the end of the 19th century. These buildings had been used as a club and Masonic banks and countries such as the United Kingdom, France, United States, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, Consulate of Russia and the United Kingdom. Buildings, the Bund has been designated a national key cultural relics protection units of the People's Republic of China in 1996.
Mercenary in the beautiful night view, we are bustling tourists gathered from various parts of China and foreign countries when it comes to the weekend now.
By all means, please look at the beautiful architecture of the Bund group. The range of Bund traditional, south is the whole area up to the outside white bridge (formerly Garden Bridge) across (Suzhou River, formerly known as Suzhou Creek) Wu the north Nobe-yasu-ro from (formerly Edward VII Avenue).
Facility | outside Nada |
Address | China Shanghai Zhongshan East straight 5 |
Access | Subway Line 2 About 8 minutes walk from station "Nanjing East Road " |
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