Gyantse Fortress
Gyantse Dzong or Gyantse Fortress is one of the best preserved dzongs in Tibet, perched high above the town of Gyantse on a huge spur of grey brown rock.Photo: Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn), CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: fortress in Gyantsé, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Gyantse Dzong”, “Jiangzi Zongshan Anti British Site”, “Site of resistance to British Aggression at Zongshan, Jiangzi”, “Site of the Counter British Battle in Gyantse Dzong”, “རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང 宗山抗英遗址”, and “宗山遗址”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palcho Monastery.
Palcho Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Alberrosidus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. Palcho Monastery is situated 1 km northwest of Gyantse Fortress.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gyantse.
Gyantse
Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town, is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in Tibet, but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.
Gyantse Fortress
- Categories: fortress, cultural heritage of China, castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.91786° or 28° 55′ 4″ northLongitude
89.59956° or 89° 35′ 58″ eastOpen location code
7MWFWH9X+4ROpenStreetMap ID
way 212741207OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1297848
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Gyantse Fortress” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “宗山抗英遗址”
- Chinese: “江孜宗山”
- Chinese: “江孜宗山抗英遗址”
- Dutch: “Fort van Gyants”
- Dutch: “Fort van Gyantse”
- Dutch: “Gyantse”
- French: “Dzong de Gyantsé”
- German: “Dzong von Gyantse”
- German: “Festung von Gyangzê”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dzong Park and 宗山.
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