The fort at the edge of the map
The Dutch built a headquarters on a sandbar at Anping. The sea has since retreated, leaving a fort, a tree house and a street of food stalls.
Tainan.
Tainan is the oldest continuously settled city in Taiwan. The Dutch built Fort Zeelandia at Anping in the 1620s, Koxinga took the fort in 1662, and the Qing made the town the seat of Taiwan Prefecture in 1683. The old city, still called Fucheng, keeps a dense layer of temples, academies and shophouses. Its harbour has long since silted, and the sea now lies a few kilometres west of the streets that once faced it.
Tainan
The lane above the buried canals
Shennong Street was a trading lane on the Five Channels. The water is gone, but the wooden shophouses and the dockworkers' temple remain.
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A fort, an academy and a school of thought
Chihkan Tower stands on a Dutch fort, and the Confucian temple nearby was Taiwan's first academy. Together they mark the centre of the old prefecture.
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Anping
The old Dutch harbour district of Tainan, with a fort, a banyan-covered warehouse and a street of oyster omelettes.
Shennong Street
A narrow lane of wooden shophouses in old Tainan, once a street on the Five Channels and now full of small workshops.
Chihkan
The site of a Dutch fort and Taiwan's first Confucian academy, at the centre of the old prefectural city.
Photo credits and rights
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The old commercial quarter of Tainan, with the bank's classical gate on the corner.knack / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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The white watchtower of Fort Zeelandia stands on the old Dutch mole at Anping.CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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A corner of Shennong Street at night, with the temple lanterns and the traffic of the old quarter.AngMoKio / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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The southern gate of Chihkan Tower, with the Wenchang Pavilion seen through the arch.Koika / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
