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Suzhou Travel Guide

Heritage Sites: Classic Gardens of Suzhou

Suzhou Introduction:

On the bank of Lake Taihu, Suzhou is some 199km east of Shanghai. Over 2,500 -year-old, the waterside towns and rivers spanned over with bridges in and around Suzhou are the same age as the city. During the Tang Dynasty, the Grand Canal connected Suzhou to the rest of empire. Since then, water physically and culturally defines Suzhou.
Suzhou was an centre of silk production and remains so to nowadays. The Suzhou Silk Museum is a good place to learn more about silk production. The classical gardens in Suzhou have been inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage List and these gardens are not the arrays of closely ordered flowers to which westerners are accustomed to, they look like miniature parks in the western sense. The water villages in the suburbs, such as Zhou Zhuang and Tongli, are also well known in the world.

Climate: (Degrees Centigrade)

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Food

Jiangsu Province is the birthplace of Huaiyang Cuisine, one of the China's 4 major cuisine. The representative famous banquet are the Water Village Flavours and Tea Banquet in Suzhou. The local flavours and snacks of Suzhou are also well known.

Suzhou Gardens & Suzhou Attractions


Humble Administrator's Garden	Lingering Garden	Master of Nets Garden	Tiger Hill	Panmen Gate	Water Village

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