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Author: Watermelonfarmer89
The Southeast Corner Watchtower (Dongnan Jiao Lou) is a remnant of the long demolished ancient City Walls of Beijing. It is located near the Ancient Observatory. Still imposing after all these years, the Southeast Corner Watchtower now welcomes visitors.
You can walk along the walls of the watchtower and admire its towering bastions with little pot holes for the archers. The walls bear graffiti left over by the international troops that came to liberate the Foreign Legations during the Boxer Rebellion of 1990.
Housed on the 1st and 4th level of the Southeast Corner Watchtower is the Red Gate Gallery, an art gallery founded in 1991 by an Australian in Beijing. It exhibits work by contemporary Chinese and foreign artists. You can check for upcoming exhibits at the gallery's website, www.redgategallery.com.
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Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.
Author: Watermelonfarmer89
The Southeast Corner Watchtower (Dongnan Jiao Lou) is a remnant of the long demolished ancient City Walls of Beijing. It is located near the Ancient Observatory. Still imposing after all these years, the Southeast Corner Watchtower now welcomes visitors.
You can walk along the walls of the watchtower and admire its towering bastions with little pot holes for the archers. The walls bear graffiti left over by the international troops that came to liberate the Foreign Legations during the Boxer Rebellion of 1990.
Housed on the 1st and 4th level of the Southeast Corner Watchtower is the Red Gate Gallery, an art gallery founded in 1991 by an Australian in Beijing. It exhibits work by contemporary Chinese and foreign artists. You can check for upcoming exhibits at the gallery's website, www.redgategallery.com.
How to reach the Southeast Corner Watchtower
Take the subway to the Beijing Zhan subway station.
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Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.
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