Iron Tower, Chinese: 铁塔, Pinyin: Tie Ta
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Located in the Iron Tower Park, northeastern corner of Kaifeng City, it's also known as "Kaibao Temple Tower ", since its whole body was covered by dark brown glazed tiles,, from a distance, it looks like iron color, hence, so it got the name of Iron Tower . The Tower was built in 1049 A.D the first year of Huangyou of Northern Song Dynasty, has history of more than 900 years, in 1961, it was designated by the State Council as the key antique unit under special protection. The Tower is an octagonal building of 13 storeys with a height of 55.88 meters, the width of each side at the base is 4.16 meters, and it is decreasing from the base to the top levels. The body of the tower was erected with colorful pattern bricks with over 50 designs of the celestial flying ladies, the unicorn, Buddha, musician and dancers, lions, etc, the style is charming, vivid and lifelike, it's worthy to be the artistic masterpiece of Song Dynasty. The Iron Tower is well known at home and abroad with its unique art of architecture, the design is fine and excellent, strong in structure, it withstands numerous attacks of earthquake, floods, storms, and man-made damages since its construction and now it still firmly stands there magnificently.
Picture of Iron Tower
Picture of Iron Tower