Guangzhou Conghua tower logo Tropic of Cancer tower
Canton namely the Tropic of Cancer Conghua tower logo Tropic of Cancer tower. Located (latitude 23 ° 26'28 "44 east longitude 113 ° 28 '56.16) 42 km from the city of Taiping Yau Ma Po Tsuen three six decades slope Guangzhou, south of the Tropic of Cancer is the height of the highest on the world's current largest, a landmark tower.
Flag tower covers an area of 1024 square meters, 23.5 meters high tower, the tower for the rocket type, the main part of mixed granite masonry structure. Fundamentals for the altar style, stone floor arranged for gossip graphics. The overhead has a ball, and the latitude and longitude lines perpendicular intersection of the bottom middle of its circular hole perpendicular to each other, the Tropic of Cancer is passing from the circular hole. Every year June 22 12:26 summer solstice, the sun direct light through the hole, people stand here, have not seen the shadow of the vertical pole spectacle.
Shape building base of the tower is the Temple of Heaven, composed of three steps, a first, two-step railing square, semicircular spherical third step, as per step 9, it is piled with granite, as one liter tower outgoing fire space rocket. The overhead has a copper ball symbol of the sun, is a copper plate 6mm thick paste 26 made of copper ball having a diameter of 120 cm. Flag tower surrounded by four wings display the southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest direction. Gild the front tower engraved "Tropic of Cancer Tower" seven characters. East, south, west and north have an archway, visitors can enter. Central embedded with a copper bottom heart and head the ball opposite, the tower is hollow, being from here through the Tropic of Cancer, visitors stand in the bottom copper heart, looked up, get a glimpse of the sky from a hole tower heart and copper ball. The summer solstice day at noon 12:26 each year, the sun's direct light through the moment here, people stand here, no sign. After the flag tower built by Pacific zoned 28 acres, the construction of the Tropic of Cancer Park.
Scenic Area Address: Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City, Guangzhou Conghua from South
Bus routes: Take Conghua 5 bus to