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Ancient Fort at Huli Hill was built in 1891 and is located on the Hulishan Shore, south of Xiamen. It occupies an area of 13,000 square meters. It fully reserves the ancient military facilities such as the emplacement, the barracks, the castle, the secret tunnel, the trench, the ammunition depot and the drill ground etc. all its buildings distinctively reserve the military style of the Ming Dynasty and that of the Qing Dynasty besides the construction structure referring to the Europe King Forts. It also possesses local characteristics. The East Fort is still holding a huge cannon made by Krupp Company of Germany. The caliber of the cannon is 280 mm, the whole length of the cannon is 13.96 meters, the weight of the cannon is 59,888 kilograms and the maximum range of fire of the cannon is 10,460 meters. It is still in good condition despite enduring one hundred years of erosion by wind and rain. It is the only cannon of the same type left in the world. It truly could be called "King of the Cannon in the World" and is really a precious historical relic.


Museum there is a world';s smallest guns, only 11 cm long and weighs 0.22 kg, diameter 0.8 cm, and the world';s largest cannon, "Krupp cannon" exist side by side.


located in Xiamen, southeast salient headlands, near Xiamen University, is the Westernization MovementProduct. Was built two decades before dynasty (AD 1894).


Fort total area over 70,000 square meters, the Castle area of over 13,000 square meters, floor area is divided into war, after the barracks area and mountains, the open puzzle illegal channels, tectonics wall, ammunition depots, barracks, Guanting, the Peak Lookout Hall and so on. Fort semi-bunker-style structure, semi-Wall-style, with Europe and the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties.


Traffic

Bus 96,812,616,503,520,809,87,86,48,47,29,22,501 Road, Building 2 lines, 20 lines Ha, Ha 59 lines can be reached.


Tickets

25 yuan

7:30 ~ 18:00