Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Tainan, Taiwan

National Chenggong University Rongyuan, also known as Darong Garden, is a park located in the Guangfu Campus of the National Chenggong University in Tainan City, Taiwan. The park is well -known for Cathay Pacific Rong, which was planted by Yuren. The practice field of the barracks has been opened to the outside world.

Wikipedia: 國立成功大學榕園 (ZH), Website

Tainan Park, formerly known as Zhongshan Park, is a park located in the North District of Tainan City, Taiwan, which was founded and opened in 1917 and is the oldest and largest park in the city. It covers an area of more than 40,000 square meters (15 A), and was also a tropical experimental forest at that time.

Wikipedia: 台南公園 (ZH)

Xihuatang was founded in the fifteenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1750), located in the north district of Tainan City, Taiwan, in the seventy-fourth year of the Republic of China (1985) approved as a third-class historic site, is now a municipality directly under the central government's historic site, belongs to the Zhaijiao of the Jinzhu Sect of Weng Yongfeng tribe under the Zhaitang, but also the only hall of the tribe, the main worship of the Three Treasures Buddha.

Wikipedia: 西華堂 (ZH)

Tainan Kaiji Jade Palace, commonly known as the old Tiangong Temple, is located in the North District of Tainan City, the former town of Beifang, built in the Ming and Zheng era, the main worship of the Jade Emperor God, is the lord of ten thousand heavens, for the supreme god of the heavenly realm, dominates the three worlds, the Jade Emperor is known as the Jade Emperor Xuanqiong High God, commonly known as Tiangong, Tiangong Zu, Jade Emperor, for the earliest worship of the Jade Emperor God, the Jade Emperor Four Highnesses, the Jade Emperor Three Princesses of the head temple in Taiwan. Together with the Temple of Heaven, the first temple in Taiwan, it is the two major Tiangong temples in Tainan City.

Wikipedia: 開基玉皇宮 (ZH)

The Great Guanyin Pavilion and the Ritual Xingji Palace are famous temples located in the North District of Tainan City, Taiwan, which were announced as third-class monuments on November 27, 1985, and are now designated as historic sites directly under the central government. The temple is composed of the "Great Guanyin Pavilion" of the main worship of Guanyin Buddha and the "Ritual Xingji Palace" of the main Baosheng Emperor, although it belongs to Buddhism and Taoism, but since its establishment, the two temples are connected, the relationship is close, and it belongs to the same organization and management.

Wikipedia: 大觀音亭興濟宮 (ZH)

The Chihkan East Street Japanese-style dormitory is a Japanese-style dormitory in the central and western districts of Tainan City, which was used as a police dormitory after the war, registered as a historical building in Tainan City in 2016, completed restoration in 2021, and opened in August 2023 Meijicho Ice Cream, which is operated by the Sunrise Group.

Wikipedia: 赤崁東街日式宿舍 (ZH)

Kaiji Lingyu Palace, located in the central and western districts of Tainan City, Taiwan, is a historic site directly under the central government of the Republic of China, the temple is dedicated to the Arctic Xuantian God, because the temple was built at the earliest, so it is crowned with the word "Kaiji". Scholar Chen Zaizheng believes that the temple was built at least around the 19th year of the Yongli calendar of the Ming Dynasty (1665), and earlier than the Eagle Ridge North Pole Temple. In addition, the temple was built by the military and the civilian community in the past, and the rebuilding was also funded by officials, which scholars Shi Wanshou believed showed that the temple had a semi-official nature, while Zhang Xinan and Huang Minghan believed that the temple was an official temple with the North Pole Hall (Great God Temple).

Wikipedia: 開基靈祐宮 (ZH)

The Chenghuang Temple in the capital of Taiwan was set up in the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan to correspond to the official Chenghuang Temple in Taiwan County, which was called "Taiwan County Chenghuang Temple" at that time, and was located in the North District of Tainan City. Although its history dates back to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the current temple building was rebuilt in January 1980 after the war.

Wikipedia: 全臺首邑縣城隍廟 (ZH)

Kaiji Tianhou ancestral temple, also known as Kaizhen Hou Palace, is located in the North District of Tainan City, Taiwan. It is the temple that worships Mazu. Because the temple is the earliest Mazu Temple in Taiwan, it is named "Kaishi". Its alias "Little Mazu Temple" is opposite to the worship of the "Mother's Temple".

Wikipedia: 開基天后宮 (ZH)

The Chihkan Tower Tuas Hall is a temple located in the Central and Western Districts of Tainan City, Taiwan, located on the west side of the Chihkan Tower, and is mainly dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva. According to legend, it was founded in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty and was the first Chinese-style building on the ruins of Puluo Minsha City. Later, due to various factors such as the change of dynasty, the Tuas Hall went through three constructions and two demolitions, and after the second demolition during the Japanese occupation, it was not until the 63rd year of the Republic of China (1974) that it began to be rebuilt at the current site, and the 65th year of the Republic of China (1976) was completed to receive the statue of the god of worship, and the seat has been enshrined until now.

Wikipedia: 赤崁樓大士殿 (ZH)

Fort Provintia or Providentia, also known as Chihkan Tower, was a Dutch outpost on Formosa at a site now located in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan. It was built in 1653 during the Dutch colonization of Taiwan. The Dutch, intending to strengthen their standing, sited the fort at Sakam, about 2 miles (3.2 km) due east from modern-day Anping. During the Siege of Fort Zeelandia (1662), the fort was surrendered to Koxinga, but was later destroyed by a rebellion and earthquakes in the 18th century. It was rebuilt afterwards in the 19th century under Qing rule.

Wikipedia: Fort Provintia (EN)

Tainan Wu Garden, known at the time of its creation as "Purple Spring Garden (紫春園)," is located in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan. Built by Wu Shangxin (吳尚新), the garden is known as one of the Four Great Gardens of Taiwan (台灣四大名園), along with Lin Family Mansion and Garden in Wufeng (霧峰萊園), Beiguo Garden in Hsinchu (新竹北郭園), and Lin Family Mansion and Garden in Banqiao (板橋林本源園邸),.

Wikipedia: Tainan Wu Garden (EN)

Guandi Port Kaijiwu Temple, commonly known as Little Guandi Temple, is located in the Central and Western District of Tainan City, Taiwan, and is a temple dedicated to the Holy Emperor Wenheng (Guan Yu). The front hall of the temple (the original main hall) was announced as a municipal monument in Tainan, and the registered name was the original main hall of Kaijiwu Temple.

Wikipedia: 開基武廟 (ZH)

Tainan Jinhua Mansion is located in the Central and Western District of Tainan City. On November 7, 2005, the 94th year of the Republic of China (2005), it was announced as a municipal monument, and the temple is dedicated to Emperor Guan and Ma Li Huang, and is one of the few temples named "Fu" in Tainan City, expressing its characteristics as a temple of the princes.

Wikipedia: 臺南金華府 (ZH)

Fengshen Temple, located in the central and western districts of Tainan City, Taiwan, is the only existing temple in Taiwan dedicated to the god of wind, and is also one of the seven temples and eight temples in Taiwan. The official pavilion, which is also a historic site of the municipality directly under the central government, is located in Miaocheng.

Wikipedia: 風神廟 (ZH)

Xiluo Temple, Nanshi Street, formerly known as Fengshan Temple and Shengwang Gongfu, is located in the Central and Western District, Tainan City, Taiwan, and is a temple dedicated to the gods such as King Guangze and the Thirteen Taibao.

Wikipedia: 西羅殿 (ZH), Website

Located in the Central and Western District of Tainan City, Taiwan, Sanjiao Town Ganghaian Palace is a temple dedicated to Mazu. Its origin is that the three suburbs of Fucheng were built in the first year of Qianlong (1736) from Meizhou Island, Putian County, Xinghua Prefecture to welcome Mazu incense, and after the Lin Shuangwen incident, Fukangan was expanded to thank Mazu for blessing the army to cross the sea to Taiwan; Another theory is that Hai'an Palace, like Lukang Xinzu Palace, is a temple that Fukangan asked to build after the Lin Shuangwen incident. Because the temple is located in the area of Nanshi Port in the former Tainan Wujo Port, close to Zhendutou, it is also called Zhengang Mazu.

Wikipedia: 三郊鎮港海安宮 (ZH)

The Duiyue Gate or Laoshi City Gate and Laogu Stone Urn City Wall is a historical gate in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Duiyue Gate (EN)