The tower that kept the city wall
Tianxin Pavilion is a gate tower on the only surviving piece of Changsha's old city wall. The wall, the revolution that dismantled it and the tower standing today are the three stages the old enclosure went through.
Tianxin Pavilion
Tianxin Pavilion (天心阁) is a group of three linked towers standing on the last piece of Changsha's city wall, at the highest ground of the old south city. First built in the early Ming dynasty, it served as lookout and gun platform through the empire's last centuries and was chosen as the fire-signal point for the 1938 burning of the city. Rebuilt between 1981 and 1984, the complex now overlooks 226 metres of restored wall beside a 1946 memorial to the war dead. The wall entered the national protected list in 2013.
Tianxin Pavilion