Shilin District
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Places of Interest
Highlights include National Palace Museum and Mother House of Congregatio Discipulorum Domini.
National Palace Museum
Museum
Photo: Taiwankengo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Palace Museum, also known as Taipei Palace Museum, is a national museum headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in Beijing in 1925, the museum was re-established in Shilin, Taipei, in 1965, later expanded with a southern branch in Taibao, Chiayi, in 2015. National Palace Museum is situated 3½ km south of Shilin District.
Mother House of Congregatio Discipulorum Domini
Church
The Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord is a Catholic religious institute founded by future Cardinal Celso Costantini, an Italian, in 1928 at Xuanhua of Hebei Province in China, with the help of the Spanish Redemptorist missionaries.
Tianmu Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Tianmu Sport Park in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. It was built in 1999, and mostly hosts baseball games.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yangmingshan National Park and Beitou.
Yangmingshan National Park
Photo: TianyinLee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yangmingshan National Park; Yáng Míng Shān Guójiā Gōngyuán) is a collection of peaks in Taiwan, located to the northeast of Taipei.
Beitou
Beitou District is the northernmost of the twelve districts of Taipei City, Taiwan. The historical spelling of the district is Peitou. The name originates from the Ketagalan word Kipatauw, meaning witch.
Shilin District
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Shih-lin”, “Shih-lin Ch’ü”, “Shihlin Cyu”, “Shilin”, and “Shilin Qu”
- Location: Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.1333° or 25° 8′ northLongitude
121.55° or 121° 33′ eastElevation
375 metres (1,230 feet)Open location code
7QQ34HM2+82GeoNames ID
1669368
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In Other Languages
“Shilin District” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “士林區”
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