Sights Canton, China

Guangzhou - one of 24 historical cities in China, with more than 2000 years of history. It was many centuries ago, here began the Marine Silk Road ". Over 2000 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty was founded by commercial port, the ships of other countries here were taken by Chinese goods.

Before the modern era relic preserved remains of the shipyard Qin and Han Dynasty, showing how it was developed shipbuilding in Guangzhou in those distant days when the city was a major staging post on the Silk Road.

Throughout its history, Guangzhou has always been an open trading city until the emperors of the Tang Dynasty did not possess the south of the country. In the era of Sung, when the center of interest shifted to the south, Guangzhou has become the center of production.

Yuesyu Park - the largest park in Guangzhou, with an area of 920 thousand square meters. m. park full of flowers and trees, every year in spring and autumn, this is a place big Spring Fair and Exhibition chrysanthemums. Inside the park there is also a stadium with a capacity of over 30 thousand spectators. The main attractions of the park: the statue of five rams, Chzhenhaylou tower, an obelisk memory of Sun Yat-sen and the city wall of the Minsk time.

Five rams statue - the symbol of the city of Guangzhou.

Ancestral Temple of Chen Family Chentszyatsy - Temple of Chen family in Guangzhou - one of the brightest representatives of Chinese architects of the nineteenth century. Built in the 1890th during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, when Guangxu, the Temple of Chen family represents the most well-preserved and most magnificent temple in Guangdong Province. In the temple of combined traditional Chinese architecture and unique, peculiar to the province of Guandong direction of decorative art.

At 10 000 s-meter complex has 19 buildings and 6 beautiful courtyards. In the temple on display clay, stone, porcelain, splendid specimens of Chinese art works on silk.

Memorial Sun Yatsena. Sun Yatsen - a revolutionary, first president of China, he overthrew the tercentenary dynasty rulers of China.

Market Kingping. In this market selling animals.

Exhibition Complex Lyuhua. Exhibition space of the complex is 120 thousand square meters. Every year the trade fair complex Lyuhua invested large sums of money to improve and upgrade facilities, equipment and facilities. It was built in 1974. Located in the heart of the city, the complex Lyuhua very convenient to visit.

Pazhou Exhibition Complex - is a multifunctional International Exhibition Center, the largest and most modern in Asia, the second largest in the world, was opened in 2002. Exhibition space of the complex is 130 thousand square meters inside and 22 thousand square meters outside.

Pazhou Complex has 13 exhibition halls, located on the first and second floors, the size of each room is about 10 thousand square kilometers. meters. Composition of the complex allows for several disparate exhibitions simultaneously.

With spaciousness exhibition halls, the complex is ideal even for such exhibitions, as exhibitions of cars, equipment and sailing boats, for which the exhibition complex to special requirements.

TV Tower Guangzhou - the highest TV tower in China is constructed in November 2005 by ARUP for the Asian Games in 2010. The planned height of the tower is 610 meters. The tower will also be used to review the panorama of the city and is designed to receive 10,000 tourists a day.