Chongqing is one of the four municipalities directly under the central government in China. Its unique terrain has created its unique urban development process. There are many tourist attractions in the main city of Chongqing. How many have you been to? The following editor will take a stock of 12 scenic spots in Chongqing.
Attraction 1: Chongqing People's auditorium
People's auditorium is located in people's road. It was built in 1950's. it is a beautiful antique national building complex and one of the landmark buildings in Chongqing. The auditorium adopts the architectural features of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the traditional central axis is symmetrical, and the appearance of the auditorium imitates the temple of heaven in Beijing. The auditorium was originally named the Great Hall of military and political affairs in Southwest China. After its completion, it was officially named the auditorium of southwest administrative committee. It was renamed Chongqing People's auditorium in 1955. The auditorium is now a theatre and Conference Center, where the Chongqing People's Congress and the Party Congress are held. After Chongqing established the municipality directly under the central government, the front of the auditorium was transformed into a people's Square with lawns and fountains. At night, the auditorium is very beautiful under the light. There are many local aunts dancing in the square in front of the auditorium. Opposite the auditorium is the Three Gorges Museum of China. You can enjoy it together.
Scenic Spot 2: Chongqing Three Gorges Museum
The Three Gorges Museum is located on the west side of Chongqing People's Square. There are tens of thousands of cultural relics such as Bashu bronzes and Han Dynasty sculptures in the museum, showing the development history of the mountain city. In the exhibition hall of "Magnificent Three Gorges", a large number of physical objects of the Three Gorges Reservoir area are collected, which truly reappear the original appearance of the Three Gorges. The funnel-shaped circular dome directly above the museum building is very like a huge dew plate, which means to take the water from the Three Gorges to the sky. The outer wall is composed of large area of blue glass and simple sandstone. The blue glass symbolizes water, while the sandstone outer wall represents mountains. The Three Gorges Museum is divided into four layers, mainly composed of 360 degree movie, four basic exhibitions (Magnificent Three Gorges, ancient Bayu, Chongqing City Road, anti Japanese war years) and six special exhibitions.
Attraction 3: Ciqikou Ancient Town
Ciqikou Ancient Town -- a national AAAA level scenic spot, a famous historical and cultural street in China, a key protected traditional street in Chongqing, Chongqing's "new Bayu twelve sceneries", Bayu folk culture tourism circle.
Ciqikou Ancient Town is located at the Bank of Jialing River, Shapingba District, Chongqing. It was founded in the Song Dynasty. It has a unique landform of "one river, two streams, three mountains and four streets", forming a natural harbor, which is an important water and land wharf beside the Jialing River. Once, thousands of people bowed their hands in the day and thousands of bright lights in the night flourished for a while.
Ciqikou Ancient Town is rich in Bayu culture, religious culture, Shami culture, Hongyan culture and folk culture, each with its own characteristics. A flagstone Road, a thousand year old Ciqikou, is the epitome and symbol of the ancient city of Chongqing, praised as "little Chongqing".
Ciqikou Ancient Town has developed traditional performance projects such as oil extracting, silk drawing, sugar making, dough kneading, Sichuan Opera and various traditional snacks, teahouses, etc. the temple fair of Ciqikou held every Spring Festival is the most distinctive traditional activity, attracting tens of thousands of citizens to participate. The distinctive national and regional characteristics of Ciqikou show its vigorous vitality and strong attraction. Every day, guests from home and abroad come in an endless stream.
Attraction 4: Chaotianmen
Chaotianmen is located at the intersection of Jialing River and Yangtze River in Yuzhong Peninsula of Chongqing. It is one of the 17 ancient city gates before Chongqing. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, the capital of Song Dynasty, is today's Hangzhou. At that time, there was an imperial edict to reach Chaotianmen through the Yangtze River, so Chaotianmen was named. On the left side of Chaotianmen, Jialingjiang River flows into Xiaochuan, with a longitudinal flow of 1119 km, and then flows into the Yangtze River. Chaotianmen is the two river hub and the largest waterway passenger terminal in Chongqing.
Attraction 5: dross cave
The dross cave is located at the foot of Gele Mountain in Chongqing, 2.5km away from Bai mansion. The dross cave was originally a small coal kiln on the outskirts of Chongqing. It got its name because it had more dross and less coal. There are mountains on three sides and ditches on one side. The location of the refuse pit is relatively hidden. In 1939, the Kuomintang military spy forced the owner of the mine to die and occupied the coal kiln. A prison was set up here. It is divided into internal and external courts, the external court is the secret service office, torture room, etc. there are 16 rooms on the first floor and the first floor of the internal court for men's prison, and there are two other bungalows for women's prison.
Attraction 6: a tree in Nanshan
A tree viewing platform in Nanshan, Chongqing, was built in July 2003 with a total investment of more than 12 million yuan, including a tree viewing Pavilion (six stories high, with a building area of 1570 square meters) and a field leisure area (covering an area of 120 mu). A tree viewing platform in Nanshan, Chongqing is a great place for guests to enjoy the night view of Chongqing. On the basis of not adjusting the original facilities and styles, this landscape park extends the browsing space backward, sets up a field leisure area, and builds 14 fitness projects, widens the sightseeing space, and forms the sightseeing pattern of day view city appearance and night view of mountain city.
Scenic spot 7: Hongya cave
Hongya cave
Hongya cave, located in Cangbai road of Jiefangbei, the riverside area where the Yangtze River and Jialing River meet, is a combination of urban tourism landscape, business and leisure landscape and urban cultural landscape. Taking the style of "Diaojiaolou" with the characteristics of the traditional architecture of Bayu as the main body, it is built along the river according to the situation of the mountain, and the Liberation Monument reaches the riverside. Hongya cave has a history of more than 2300 years. The "Hongyadong folk custom area" project is one of the eight popular projects of Chongqing municipal government in 2005, with a total area of 46000 square meters. It is the "Chongqing key landscape project" and the "AAA level key tourism project project".
Attraction 8: Garden Expo Park
Attraction 9: Minguo Street
Minguo street is a characteristic block with the theme of "history of the Republic of China" and "characteristics of Bayu". It is located in Liangjiang International Film and Television City, Chongqing. The construction of Minguo Street cost 130 million yuan. 1942, directed by Feng Xiaogang and the first film invested by Chongqing film group, takes this street as an important location.
The first phase project of Minguo Street reappears the famous buildings and sceneries of Chongqing in the period of the Republic of China, including Guotai theater, Xinhua Daily, Xinya coffee, Imperial Palace photo studio, and some museums, bars, shops, hotpot museums, camera museums and theme bars with the characteristics of the old Chongqing.
Scenic spot 10: Jiefang monument
Liberation Monument
Jiefangbei pedestrian street is the most prosperous business district in Chongqing. There are a large number of department stores and wine restaurants here. It is a good place for shopping, food and shopping, and also a good place to visit Chongqing beauties. The pedestrian street is located in Yuzhong District, with Jiefangbei as the center, including Minquan Road, Zourong road and Bayi Road.
Scenic spot 11: Yangtze River cableway
The Yangtze River Passenger Ropeway has become a must for tourists in the mountain city. The cableway starts from Chang'an Temple (Xinhua Road) in Yuzhong District and crosses the Yangtze River to Shangxin Street (Longmenhao) in Nan'an District. Take the cableway and slide to the other side of the river. You can see the nearby steel forest, the Yangtze River and the north and South Bank of the river. It's a great experience to overlook the night view of Chongqing from a short distance by taking the Yangtze River cableway which is about one kilometer long. The Yuzhong Peninsula, the Binjiang Road, the Yangtze River and the river bridge are all resplendent. If you take the Yangtze River cableway to see the night scene on the night of drizzle, you can also enjoy a picture of night rain in Bashan, the rain state of Bashan, and the urban mountains in the ink. The Yangtze River cableway has also become a must for many film and television dramas in Chongqing. Where there are cableway scenes in domestic film and television dramas, the audience will know that it is Chongqing. His representative works include: Zhou Yu's train in 2001, crazy stone in 2006, Curiosity Kills cats in 2006, door in 2007 and other films, and entertainment program extreme challenge in 2015.
Scenic spot 12: Bai Mansion
Baigong mansion is located in Geleshan, Shapingba District, Chongqing. It is a revolutionary relic in memory of the heroes. It was originally a suburban villa of Baiju, a warlord of Sichuan. Baiju claimed to be the offspring of BaiJuyi. By borrowing BaiJuyi's nickname 'Xiangshan resident', Baiju named the villa 'Xiangshan Villa'. In 1939, Dai Li, the head of the juntong secret service, bought it with a lot of money and transformed it into a prison for persecuting revolutionaries.