Tainan City Sights

  1. Anping Tree House

    Anping Tree House, on the same grounds as the merchant house, stands out for the large banyan growing in the gutted centre.

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  2. Great South Gate

    The garrison commander in you will love the martial feel of the old Great South Gate, the only town gate in Tainan that still has much of its defensive wall intact. The inner grounds feature several cannons and a section of the old wall marvellously overgrown with thick roots. As with the Confucius Temple, the trees here are an attraction in themselves.

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  3. Koxinga Shrine

    When the Ming dynasty was overthrown by the Manchus in 1661, Koxinga (Cheng Cheng-kung) led his army to Taiwan with plans to restock supplies and then retake the mainland. He found the Dutch already here, but after nine months battle they surrendered and departed from Taiwan.

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