37 Sights in Guangzhou, China (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in Guangzhou1. Beijing Road Pedestrian Street
Beijing Road is a street integrating culture, entertainment and commerce in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, and is the most prosperous commercial center in the history of Guangzhou, with an average daily flow of about 350,000 people. Beijing Road stretches from Guangwei Road in the north to Yanjiang Middle Road in the south, with a total length of more than 1,500 meters.
2. Yuexiu Park

Yuexiu Hill, also known as Yut Sau Shan , Yut Sau Hill or Mount Yuexiu, is located in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. It once formed the northern end of the old walled city, though most of the walls have been dismantled and the city has now expanded far beyond it. Its grounds now form Guangzhou's Yuexiu Park, which remains one of the most famous tourist attractions in Guangzhou, including beautiful natural surroundings and ancient sites. It covers an area of 860,000 square meters (9,300,000 sq ft).
3. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
The Sun Yat-sen or Zhongshan Memorial Hall is an octagon-shaped building in Guangzhou, capital of China's Guangdong Province. The hall was designed by Lu Yanzhi and was built with funds raised by local and overseas Chinese people in memory of Sun Yat-sen. Construction work commenced in 1929 and completed in 1931. The hall is a large octagonal structure with a span of 71 metres (233 ft) without pillars, housing a large stage and seats 3,240 people.
4. Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street
Upper and down Jiuzong Street is a well -known business travel area in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is located in the west of Liwan District. On September 30, 1995, it officially became a commercial pedestrian street. Its actual coverage includes road sections such as Shangjiu Road, Xiajiu Road, Tenth Fu Road, Baohua Road, and Kangwang Road. The famous "Xiguan Commercial Corridor" is also one of the most prosperous areas of the old city.
5. Archaeological Site Museum of Nanyue Palace
The Wang Palace Exhibition District of the King of South Vietnam (formerly the Palace Museum of South Vietnam) is located at 316 Zhongshan Road, Yangxiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, the theme museum of the Palace of Vietnam, the total area of 150,000 square meters, including the ruins of the Royal Garden, the ruins of the Palace of South Vietnam, and the ruins of the official dynasties of each Dynasty, etc. The site of the Royal Garden was discovered in 1995 and found in the site the remnants of the palace gardens such as square pools, curved moon pools, curved channels, flat bridges and walking stones; the site was discovered in 2000 at the Children's Park in Guangzhou City, and only cleaned up the "bulk water" portion of one of the large palaces. The site includes three major priorities: the site of the Palace of the King of South Vietnam, the site of the Palace of South Han, and the relics of the city center uninterrupted since 2000. On 20 November 1996, the site was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. On 11 June 2006, some 3,000 square meters of relics were opened to the public for partial reconstruction and restored, and selected artifacts of over 10,000 excavations were displayed to the public.
6. Big Buddha Temple
The Dafo Temple is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Located in Yuexiu District, Dafo Temple is a grand temple with a history of more than one thousand years and was built by Emperor Liu Yan in the Southern Han dynasty (917–971). It has been praised as one of the "Five Largest Temples of Guangzhou" in history. Later it was destroyed and rebuilt many times. In the late Ming dynasty, the temple was declining day by day and was devastated by the war while Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao conquered Guangdong in 1649. During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor in 1663, the temple was rebuilt and expanded by Shang Kexi continuously. According to the national policy of free religious belief, the temple was approved by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government to be restored as a Buddhist temple in 1981. Then Master Guangming, vice-president of the Guangzhou Buddhist Association, served as abbot; he tried to revitalize Dafo Temple and restore the style of the large temple. On August 9, 1993, Dafo Temple was put on the list as a Municipality Protected Historic Site by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government.
7. 广东省财政厅
Guangdong Province Finance Hall building is a famous government department building in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, located in the northern end of Beijing Road, the building is a classical eclectic style of Western. The first construction was completed in 1919. The Guangdong Provincial People's Government's Finance Department, established after 1949, continues to use the building. In 1978, the overall repair was performed. In 1993, the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, under the name of the "Guangdong Province Finance Hall Building", was declared as the Guangzhou City Cultural Relics Protection Unit. In 2002, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government will include the fourth batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit under the name of the "Old Site of Guangdong Finance Department".
8. Guangdong TV Tower

Guangdong TV Tower, also known as Yuexiu Mountain TV Tower, Guangdong TV Transmission Tower, is located in the north peak of Yuexiu Mountain, Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou, built in 1959, officially put into use on May 1, 1966, is China's first steel structure self-supporting multi-functional TV transmission tower. The tower is 200 meters high, 246.5 meters above sea level, covers an area of 8,100 square meters, with a total investment of 3.8 million yuan, and was the tallest tower in the country in the 1970s, and is also a landmark building in Guangzhou. The TV tower used to have a platform for visitors to climb the tower for sightseeing. The tower's "Guojiao 1573" advertisement, which was once the largest outdoor neon advertisement in China, was demolished in October 2009.
9. Guangxiao Temple
Guangxiao Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, the capital of China's Guangdong Province. As the special geographical position, Guangxiao Temple often acted as a stopover point for Asian missionary monks in the past. It also played a central role in propagating various elements of Buddhism, including precepts school, Chan (Zen), Shingon Buddhism, and Pure Land. In this temple, Huineng, the sixth Chinese patriarch of Chan Buddhism, made his first public Chan lecture and was tonsured, and Amoghavajra, a Shingon Buddhist master, gave his first teaching of esoteric Buddhism. Many Buddhist scriptures were also translated here, including those translated by Yijing and the Shurangama-sūtra translated by Paramitiin (般剌密諦).
10. 明远楼
Guangdong Gongyuan held a place for the examination of the township test in the provincial level of Guangdong in the provincial level of the China feudal era. It was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and has been relocated many times in history. Erli, the eastern end of the Civilization Road in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, its scope includes the old museum of the Guangdong Provincial Museum, the eastern part of the Civilization Road General Museum of the Zhongshan Library of Guangdong Province, and the Guangdong Experimental Middle School. During the Qing Dynasty, the Guangdong Gongyuan was also known as the four major tributaries of China with the Shuntian Gongyuan, Jiangnan Gongyuan and Henan Gongyuan.
11. Site of The 1st National Congress of Kuomintang of China
The old address of the first National Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang is located in the auditorium of the Lizhong Shan Library, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, and is the national key cultural relics protection unit. The first National Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang was held in the auditorium of the bell tower from 20 to 30 January 1924. The auditorium has now returned to the original condition of the convention, the front chair has a portrait of Sun Yat-shan, the left of the image is the Chinese Kuomintang Party flag, the right is the flag of the Republic of China, and the seats under the stage are all attached to the number and name of the attendees at the meeting at the time.
12. Guangxiao Christian Church
Guangxiaotang is an important Christian church in Guangzhou, China. It is located at No. 29 Guangxiao Road, Yuexiu District. It was built from 1921 to 1924. When returning to China to invest in construction, Rev. Tan Woxin, the director of the association, planned the establishment of the church. The hall is sitting west to the east, four floors, 26.7 meters high, 35 meters long, and 23 meters wide. It can accommodate more than 1,200 people. It is one of the largest churches in Guangzhou.
13. Museum of the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King
Located at No. 867, Jiefang North Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, the exhibition area of the tomb of the Nanyue King Museum (formerly known as the Nanyue King Museum of the Western Han Dynasty) is a museum built on the original site of the mausoleum of the second generation of Nanyue King Zhao Yuan. The museum covers an area of 14,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 8,500 square meters, and is a heritage museum.
14. The Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's Mansion
The Memorial Hall of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen, located at No. 18, Dongsha Street, Textile Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is a monumental memorial hall based on the national key cultural relics protection unit "the former site of the Generalissimo Mansion of Guangzhou". It was formerly the Generalissimo of Guangdong, built here by Sun Yat-sen in 1917. It was officially opened to the public on May 1, 2006.
15. Memorial of the Original Site of Whampoa Military Academy
The old site of Huangpu Military School is located on Changzhou Island, Huangpu District, Guangzhou, China, formerly the Qing Dynasty Army Primary School and Naval School. On June 16, 1924 (the Republic of 13), Sun Yat-sen, with the help of Soviet advisers, founded the school for training military cadres of the Chinese Kuomintang Army Officers, and then renamed the Army Officers School of the Republic of China to date.
16. 千年古楼遗址
The site of the millennium ancient building is a site in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. The pedestrian street on Beijing Road in Yuexiu District has begun to the south. Head. This ancient road was discovered in the test team of the Capital in 2002. In December 2008, the people's government of the Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics was scheduled to be a municipal cultural relics protection unit.
17. 广州解放纪念像
The Guangzhou Liberation Memorial is located in the center of Haizhu Square, Guangzhou, China, to commemorate the sculpture built in honor of the People's Liberation Army's Liberation Army. The original author is the sculptor Yin Jichang, whose creative version was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the current version was re-created by Pan Ho after the Cultural Revolution.
18. Former Site of All-China Federation of Trade Unions
The old site of the National General Trade Union of China is located at No. 89 Vietxiu South Road, Vietsu District, Guangzhou, China, is the seat of the National General Trade Union of China from 1925 to 1927, and was listed as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1988. Currently, it is one of the branches of the Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum.
19. People's Park
People's Park is an urban public park in Yuexiu District in central Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province in south China. Established in 1921, it is the first public park in the city, built on the site that had been the location of successive regional governments since the Sui dynasty. Due to its central location, it is colloquially called Central Park (中央公园).
20. 钟亭
The former site of Sun Yat-sen University is located in Dongguanzhuang, Shipai Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, and is the location of the former Shipai Campus of National Sun Yat-sen University. In July 2002, it was included in the list of the sixth batch of cultural relics protection units in Guangzhou.
21. Canton Orchid Garden
Located at the intersection of Jiefang North Road and Huanshi West Road in Guangzhou, China, and opposite Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou Orchid Garden covers an area of 39,000 square meters and is China's first theme park focusing on cultivating orchids, with more than 200 varieties of orchids planted. Its predecessor was the Guangzhou Herbarium.
22. Peasant Movement Institute
The Peasant Movement Training Institute or Peasant Training School was a school in Guangzhou, China, operated from 1923 to 1926 during the First United Front between the Nationalists and Communists. It was located in a former Confucian temple built in the 14th century. The site now houses a museum to Guangzhou's revolutionary past.
23. 协同和机器厂旧址
Cooperation and Machinery Factory (), original co-operation and rice mill, today Guangzhou City Diesel Engine Factory (old site), the license is No. 146 Fangville Avenue East of Liwan District. It is one of the earliest famous manufacturing enterprises in Guangzhou City, which produced the first diesel engine in Greater China.
24. City God Temple
The Capital God Temple in Guangzhou is a temple worshiping the city in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The current door is No. 48 Zhongyou Street, Zhongshan 4th Road, Yuexiu District. It was founded in the third year of Hongwu (1370) in the Ming Dynasty. It was the largest in Lingnan during the Ming Dynasty. City God Temple.
25. JinLun Guild Hall
Nylon Hall, also known as Nylon Hall, is now located on the west side of the north exit of the Kangwang Road Tunnel on Kangwang South Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou City, China. In 1997, it was listed as the fifth batch of municipal cultural relics protection units by Guangzhou.
26. 广东省凉茶养生博物馆
Guangdong Herbal Tea Health Museum It is a museum in which herbal tea and plant exhibitions with herbal tea and plants in Guangdong, China. It was established in 2008. It is located in the Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Factory in Guangzhou Science City, Huangpu District.
27. Ye Ting Statue
Ye Ting, born in Huiyang, Guangdong, was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. After serving with the Kuomintang, Ye later joined the Communist Party of China (CPC).
28. 三元里抗英斗争纪念碑
The Monument to the Sanyuanli Anti -British struggle is located on the post of Ximen Building, Sanyuanli Village, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China. It is a monument to commemorate the Chinese military and civilians killed in Sanyuanli in 1841.
29. Archaeological Site of the Wooden Watergate of Nanyue Kingdom
The Southern Vietnamese Wood Structure Wood Gazelle Ruins are located at the negative floor of Guangming Plaza between Xihu Road and Huifu East Road, Guangzhou. It is the earliest, largest, and most complete wooden sluice site in the world.
30. Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum
The Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History is a museum established in 1959 in Guangzhou, capital of China's Guangdong Province, located on the site of former Guangdong Advisory Bureau in the Second Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery.
31. Guangzhou Uprising Martyr Cemetery Park
Guangzhou Martyrs' Memorial Garden is a park located in Zhongshan 3rd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China that commemorates the death of the Chinese Communist party in the Guangzhou Uprising against the Kuomintang on December 11, 1927.
32. 广州市消防局旧址
The former site of the Guangzhou Fire Bureau, No. 49, Civilized Road, House, formerly the Central Fire Federation of the Guangzhou Central Committee of the Republic of China. It was only completed and spent more than 80,000 yuan.
33. Guangzhou Zoological Garden
Guangzhou Zoo is a zoo in Guangzhou, located in Xianlie Middle Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. It was opened and opened in 1958. The zoo in Beijing and Shanghai is collectively referred to as the three major zoos in China.
34. Temple of the Five Immortals
The Temple of the Five Immortals, formerly incorrectly translated as the Temple of the Five Genii, is a former Taoist temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong, in China. It lies beside the junction of West Huifu Road and Liurong Rd.
35. Guangzhou Children's Park
Guangzhou Children's Park is located in the central part of Baiyun New City, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China. It is one of the parks objects and children in Guangzhou and the only municipal children's park in Guangzhou.
36. Canton-Kowloon Railway Memorial Park
Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Memorial Park It is located near the junction of Donghua South Road and Dashatou 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, China, which started on January 13, 2015 and opened on January 8, 2017.
37. 19th Army Martyr's Park
The Jiu -Nineteenth Army's Songhu Anti -Japanese Kitza Judge is located at No. 113 Shuiyin Road, Shahe Street, Tianhe District, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, China. The cemetery of the soldiers killed.
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