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Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

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Kaiping Diaolou and Villages Year of Recognition 2007 Location Province Guangdong Kaiping Diaolou was initially built in 16th century BC At that time the
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the city and surounding villages are famous for some unique fortified multi storey towers which were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2007
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Kaiping is a city about 2 hours south of Guangzhou by bus From there I took a taxi to the first cluster of diaolou those at Zili Village I can testify that tourism definitely has arrived
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The local people adopted and combined various architectural styles including Greek Roman Gothic Islamic Baroque and Rococo Elements of different styles co exist in the diaolou of
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