26003 Suzhou Watertown

Description

Located in the Jiangnan water network zone, Suzhou is a well-known water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It has a pleasant scenery and a gathering of humanities. Since ancient times, it has the reputation of “there is paradise above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below”. Suzhou mainly takes “three ancients and one lake” (classical gardens, thousand-year-old city, water town and Taihu Lake scenery) as its unique tourism resources.

Suzhou is a garden city. There are more than 70 gardens still intact. Suzhou gardens have won the reputation of “Jiangnan gardens are the best in the world, and Suzhou gardens are the best in the south” for “ancient, beautiful, refined, elegant, and many.” Suzhou gardens are listed as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. There are many ancient water towns around the ancient city of Suzhou, such as Zhouzhuang, Tongli, and Mudu. These ancient towns not only have thousands of years of history and culture, but also have typical Jiangnan pastoral scenery.