Tu Temple

Tushan Temple, located on the top of Tushan Mountain in Nan'an District, is the oldest temple in Chongqing. It ia also called Zunwu Temple because the statue of Zunwu Master is worshiped in the temple. Tushan Temple has a very long history. According to record, it was built in Han Dynasty in order to commemorate Dayu and his wife. It was firstly called Yuwang Temple. In Tang Dynasty, it was renamed as Tushan Temple. A great Chinese poet, Bai Juyi, used to write a poem about it.Tushan Temple ... View Detail

Dazu Rock Carvings Art Group

The Dazu Rock Carving is located in the southeast of the Sichuan Basin, 271 kilometers away from the west of Chengdu, 167 kilometers away from the east of Chongqing. The Dazu Rock Carving lies in Dazu County, which is 167 kilometers away from the urban area of Chongqing city. It's a general designation of the stone statues distributed in 76 places in the whole Dazu County. The number of the stone statues amounts to 60,000.The Dazu Rock Carvings was built from 650 in the Tang Dynasty and ... View Detail

Diaoyu Cheng

Fishing Town or Fishing City is one of the great ancient battlefields of China. It is famous for its resistance to the Mongol armies in the latter half of the Song Dynasty. One of the most notable events was the death of Mongol leader M?ngke Khan near the city, which forced the immediate withdrawal of Mongol troops from Syria and East Asia and prevented the Mongolian Empire from expanding towards Africa.Although the Mongols and the Southern Song were united in their fight to bring down the ... View Detail

Geleshan Martyrs

Martyrs Cemetery of Gele Mountain is located at the foot of Gele Mountain, Shapingba District and was once the seat of the headquarters, transmitter-receiver and jail of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Council during the reign of Kuomingtang Government.In the later period of World War II, the Sino-America Cooperative Institute of Special Techniques had been established here actually as an earthly abyss with 20-odd jails, big or small, like Residence of the Bais and ... View Detail

GongTan town

Gongtan is one of the famous rapids on the Wujiang River. Located in western Youyang the bordering county, Gongtan connects Chongqing and its neighbor Guizhou Province since ancient times. It had been a waterborne transport artery between Chongqing and Guizhou until 1950s. afterwards, land transportation became the priority.There are stories about why this county is called Gongtan. Some people say the majority residents living in east coast of Wu River were surnamed Gong, and they were the ... View Detail

Qin Liangyu cemetery

Qin Liangyu was a general who fought the Manchus as they invaded China at the end of the Ming Dynasty.Qin Liangyu's Cemetery was located in the eastern 7km of Shizhu Town, covered an area of more than 20 hectares and built in 1648. It faced to Dragon River and backed to Huilong Mountain. In the garden, there was buzzed pines and bamboo witness outside the garden, then in the middle of the cemetery was two tombs of Qin Liangyu. It was said that a total of tombs of Qin Liangyu was 48 seats, ... View Detail

Bai Gongguan

Baigong Guan is located at the foot of Geleshan Hill (or Gele Hill) in Shapingba District (3.2km/2 miles west of Hongyancun Village). It was originally a Sichuan warlord's pied-a-terre, but it was taken over by the notoriously brutal Dai Li - head of the Nationalist (KMT) secret police - and turned into a prison in 1939. Two years later, the U.S. spy agency SACO (Sino-American Cooperation Organization), which trained secret agents for the KMT, housed its servicemen here. It reverted to a ... View Detail

Ciqikou town

Ciqikou is an ancient town in the Shapingba District of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, originally called Longyinzhen was also known as Little Chongqing. According to an old Chinese proverb: "One flagstone road, and one thousand years' Ciqikou". The name of the town can be traced back to porcelain production during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties. Formerly a busy port located at the lower reaches of the Jialing River, a thousand years after its ... View Detail

Dongxi town

Dongxi Town is formerly known as Wanshouchang and renamed by an emperor of the Tang Dynasty with the history of over 1300 years.The ancient town has a long history and unique landscape. Old road made of blue broad stones in Ming Dynasty crosses the whole town. About 3000 Ficus virens Ait.Var.sublanceolata and the Diaojiaolou built in Ming and Qing Dynasty form the scenery of delicate bridges, flowing waters and unique residents. Two monuments, three palaces, three waterfalls, four bridges.. ... View Detail

Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Hall

Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Museum is situated at NO 13, Hongyan Village, Yuzhong District, Chongqing. It used to be the base of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Chongqing office of the Eight Route Army during the period of Anti-Japanese War. It opened as a memorial museum o­n May 1st, 1958, and is now considered o­ne of China's most important monuments.The memorial occupies 74,384 square meters with a construction area of 7,351 square meters. Besides the ... View Detail