Autumn and Winter - Sinan Mansions in Natural Colors

In autumn and winter, the weather gets colder, and the leaves become particularly rich in color. They are pleasing to the eye and have a special charm in the sunlight. You need to take your time to appreciate them. Free admission all day, no reservation required. • Historical background: • The history of Sinan Mansions dates back to the 1920s. The area began to be developed in the 1920s. Over the next decade, garden houses were built one after another in the area south of Route Lafayette (now Middle Fuxing Road), east of Rue Massenet (now Sinan Road), and west of Rue Loubin (now South Chongqing Road), attracting a large number of military and political leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and famous artists to move in, making the area a place for the upper class to stay and gather. • Sinan Mansions is home to 51 historic garden houses, and features 8 of the 10 types of modern residential buildings in Shanghai, including detached garden houses, semi-detached garden houses, detached garden houses with courtyards, new-style lanes, garden lanes, verandah-style buildings, row houses, and modern apartments, making it a museum of modern residential buildings in Shanghai. • Location: • Sinan Mansions is located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, with the specific address of No. 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, Sinan Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. • It is adjacent to the elegant Fuxing Park, east of the convenient South Chongqing Road, with the quiet Sinan Road running through it, and north of the Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen. • Cultural value: • Sinan Mansions is not only a concentration of modern residential buildings in Shanghai, but also the only preserved garden residence protection project in the central urban area of Shanghai.