Guangzhou Clock Tower
Clock Tower in Guangzhou is one of the masterpieces of modern Western neo-classical building, commonly known as the Clock Tower.Bell crisp, Shengwen miles, in Fangcun body can hear. In 1916 the building designed by the American architect, even the bell tower 31.85 meters high, mainly construction materials imported from the United States. Kangxi twenty-three years, namely 1684, the Qing government officially announced the opening of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces along the coast dominated trade and commerce sites, and in Guangzhou, Zhangzhou, Ningbo, Yuntaishan set up four customs, openness to foreign trading. After the Qing government changed four trade is a trade in Guangzhou, for up to 83 years. This is a little further in the Customs House and Thirteen is good proof.
"Clock tower" for the public to mark the deepest, when the number of its ancient bells overhead. Lu said the old, the clock several decades, 15 minutes sounds once, before punctual timekeeping also put a piece of music - the British song "Westminster" inalienable years. For the old Guangzhou before the Long Beach area of life, the bells of the clock tower, is the daily life of a timer. Because then who has the table, the family has very few minutes of Guangzhou. In addition to Aiqun year, the clock tower was the tallest building in Long Beach, plus the Pearl river wider than it is now, a few miles outside of the bell could hear clearly, many of these people just as the bell dating signal of. Bell continued until the 1980s, due to the impact of residents suspected bell rest at night, the clock will strike only instead of during the day, and then later, everyone has a watch, even now during the day nor the bells chime.
"Clock tower" with a total of 5 floors basement, by the British architect Dai Weide Dick modeled on European classical architectural forms design, the top dome roof for the bell tower, 13 meters high, surrounded by two columns each puzzle Division tower pole double column. Guangdong Customs "clock tower" is the first domestic customs of the bell tower, after major cities have cloned, European-style bell tower has finally become history very unique symbol of China Customs.
Scenic Area Address: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province along the Yangtze River Road, Liwan District 29
Bus routes: Take 102,103,105,106,110, 81 wide, 50 Canton Road to Summit Express.