White Horse Park

White Horse Park sculpture

White Horse Park, also known as Baima Park, is situated in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The park is located between Xuanwu Lake and Purple Mountain.

Description

Built in 1999, the 500-acre^[1] park features a collection of several hundred stone sculptures and carvings gathered from areas around Nanjing^[2] of stone men and women, turtles, horses, tigers and towers.^[3] The pieces represent different stone carving styles, eras and disciplines. There is also a variety of original intended uses, like public viewing, religious expression, home use and burial ornamentation.

The sculptures are among more than 10,000 plants, including peach, plum and dawn redwood trees.

Gallery

References

↑ "Baima (White Horse) Park". Zhongshan Mountain National Park. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
↑ "Escape the Concrete Jungle: Nanjing's Serene Parks". Nov 25, 2010. eChinaCities.com. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
↑ "China's First Carved Stone Park Opens". October 03, 2000. Peoples Daily. Retrieved 9 May 2014.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to White Horse Park.

City of Nanjing

Districts

Attractions

Parks and lakes	China Gate Castle Park Couple Park Defence Park Gulin Park Jiangxin Island Mochou Lake Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo Purple Mountain Purple Mountain Observatory Qingliangshan Park Taoye Ferry White Horse Park Wuchaomen Park Xu Garden Xuanwu Lake Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs Zhan Yuan Garden Zhongshan Botanical Garden

Temples	Nanjing Fuzimiao (Temple of Confucius) Jiming Temple Jinghai Temple Linggu Temple Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Qixia Temple

Historic sites	Chaotian Palace City Wall of Nanjing Memorial of Tao Xingzhi Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall National Revolutionary Army Memorial Cemetery Presidential Palace, Nanjing Stone City The Porcelain Pagoda of Nanjing

Other sites	Jinling Hotel Nanjing City Wall Nanjing International Exhibition Center Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Xianlin Yangtze River power line crossings Zhonghua Gate

Culture and history

Education

Transport

2014 Youth Summer Olympics

Category
Commons

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/15/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.