Xi’an

Xi’an

Big Wild Goose Pagoda

Xi’an, as one of the six ancient capitals in China, served as the seat of 12 imperial capitals for 1,120 years and also a world-famous tourist city, a treasure house of cultural relics.
Xi’an is located at 33 north and 107 east, in the southern part of GuanZhong Plain in Shaanxi province with Qinling Mountains to the north and the Weihe River to the south Xi’an. Was called Chang’an in ancient times, more than 1 million years of condensation of history. During Xi’an’s 3,100 years of development, 12 dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, held it as their capitals.

Big Wild Goose Pagoda, situated in the Da Ci’en Temple, is one of the most famous Buddhist pagodas in China. It is located about 4 kilometres from the urban centre.

The Bell Tower is known as the symbol of Xi’an, its history can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty.

Shaanxi Provincial History Museum – a striking Tang-Dynasty style pavilion, houses a large collection of 113,000 historic and cultural artefacts unearthed in Shaanxi.

Qianling was the joint tomb of Emperor Tang Gaozong (Li Zhi, 628 AD-683 AD) and Empress Wu Zetian (624 AD-705 AD), the only Empress in Chinese history.

Museum of Qin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses. In 1974 a group of peasants digging a well, made what was to become the greatest archaeological finding of the 20th century when they unearthed fragments of a life sized Terra Cotta Warrior. Excavation of the vault revealed thousands of warriors and their horses, an entire army designed follows its emperor into the eternity.