| kaiping diaolou jpg[190×200] Kaiping Diaolou and Villages Year of Recognition 2007 Location Province Guangdong Kaiping Diaolou was initially built in 16th century BC At that time the Publishing origin | |
| kaiping diaolou3 jpg[552×360] 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 Publishing origin | |
| w1112s1 jpg[150×112] 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 Publishing origin | |
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| 116973 jpg[400×265] 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 Publishing origin |