A Fairground Turned Park
The exhibition ground at the centre of Yuan Shikai's new district, where three future leaders spoke.
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The Only Italian Concession in China
Seven hundred and seventy-one mu laid out radially around a square, with drainage built before the houses.
The Temple of Two Monasteries
A garrison commander's donation, a six-tonne Sakyamuni, and a relic that went to India.
Burned Three Times
An imperial lodge, a church of 1869, the massacre of 1870, and two more fires before 1904.
The First Station, 1888
A station that opened with the Tianjin-Tangshan railway, and the three-station pattern it left behind.
The Wheel on the Bridge
A 120-metre wheel at the centre of a road bridge, and the reason it is the only one of its kind.
Where Tianjin Began
Three rivers meeting, a Jin stockade of 1214, and a junction that moved a kilometre in the 1920s.