Things to do in Tainan City

Located in the former Five Channel Zone, the most properous trade center of the city in the old times, is this stone gate that served as the officials reception archway in the past.

Walking left from the Pao Gao Stone Gate you will find the small Yonghua Temple, located in a small square in one of the streets that leave the Fujhong Street. The old trees in front of the temple are decorated with Tao amulets.

Anping Great Fort, better known as Eternal Golden Fort because of the inscription on the entrance, was built in the XIX century by French engineers in order to resist the Japanese troops. Includes a training field and was equipped with five Armstrong Cannons. They make cannons firing demonstrations at certain hours.

Along with the one dedicated to Cofucius, this temple is one of the oldest and well preserved, not only in Tainan, but in whole Taiwan. It's dedicated to the God of War, Kuankung, and was built by the Ming Dinasty during the mid-17th century.

Just at the left of the temple there's an interesting small factory of religious sculptures.

This small hall located near the Koxinga Shrine and built in 1837 is famous for being one of the two temples of the Longhua School of Abstinence that still survive in all Taiwan.

This Fujian style shrine dedicated to Koxinga was originally built by the locals in 1663, rebuilt in 1758 and enlarged in 1874. The building helds nowadays a museum (Tainan Folk Cultural Hall) that displays things related to the concerned ancestors, pre-historic preserves and Tainan local history related materials.
The building is sorrounded by a beautiful garden that helds a monument dedicated to this pirate that expelled from the island the Dutch during the Ming Dinasty becoming a local hero.

Originally known as Fort Provintia, was built by the Dutch in 1653 as their administrative center. After expelling the Dutch (1662), Coxinga used it also as the center of the Government.

The external wall and the terrace are the only original remaining parts, as the temple, the pavillion and the famous stone turtles were built at the end of the XIX century.

Also known as Fort Zeelandia, this site originally built in 1624 by the Dutch is the oldest fort in Taiwan and actually one of the oldest historic buildings in the island, as until the arrival of the Dutch we can just find prehistoric aboriginal constructions.

The original structure was demolished by the Japanese, who built a new square ladder-style platform and a western-style house instead.