Weekend Micro-travel! Suzhou Twin Towers Travel Guide!

Suzhou Twin Towers Travel Guide The Suzhou Twin Towers, officially known as the 'Luohan Yuan Twin Towers and Main Hall Ruins', are colloquially known as the 'Brother Towers' or 'Sister-in-Law Towers'. They were built during the Song Dynasty and are located at Dinghui Temple Lane, Fenghuang Street, Suzhou City. In 1996, they were designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit, managed by the Suzhou Cultural Relics Protection Management Office. The Twin Towers are a pair of Buddhist pagodas, about 20 meters apart, facing each other from east to west. Such closely situated twin towers are unique in the country and have been used as a case study by architects such as Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen. The Twin Towers were built in the seventh year of the Taiping Xingguo era of the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 982). The east and west brick towers are remnants of the Northern Song Dynasty's Luohan Yuan, and to the north of the towers, the ruins of the Luohan Yuan main hall still retain stone columns and steps from the Song and Ming dynasties. Despite multiple restorations over a thousand years, the original form from the early Song Dynasty has been preserved. The towers are soaring, both with seven levels and a total height of over 33 meters each. Although the exterior walls of the towers are octagonal, the interior square rooms follow the old system since the Northern Wei Dynasty, serving as physical evidence of the evolution of brick tower plans between the Tang and Song dynasties. For bus travel, you can take the city bus routes 2-8-40 East Line-200 South Line-202-501-529 and get off at the Twin Towers stop, then walk about a hundred meters to arrive. For subway travel, you can take the Metro Line 1 in the city, get off at the Lindun Road Station Exit 1, and then walk about 600 meters south to arrive. Opening hours are 7:30 to 16:30, with last entry at 16:00. The ticket price is 8 yuan Suzhou Luohan Yuan Twin Towers and Main Hall Ruins Grandpa's Tea - Zhou