Tianjin Fifth Avenue
天津五大道
Tianjin Fifth Avenue， also called Wudadao Sightseeing Street, is one of the most famous streets in China, where the foreign villas are assembled in this District. Its official name is Chifeng Street, which includes five main avenues of Machangdao, Munandao, Dalidao, Chongqingdao and Chengdudao. There are altogether 22 roads, with a total length of 17 kilometers and an area of 1.28 square kilometers. There are over 2,000 garden-style villas built in 1920s and 30s by different countries. It occupies 600,000 square meters of land and the total area is 1,000,000 square meters. There're over 300 sites of scenery buildings and famous people. It is recognized globally as the Exposition of Neoteric Architectures.
Wudadao tourist route takes as the main line the former residences of Xu Shichang, Cao Kun, Pan Fu, Gu Weijun, Zhao Shaoceng, Gong Xinzhan, Yang Huiqing, Zhu Qiqian and a prince. It also incorporates the famous people and their residences, anecdotes and foreign buildings. By that, it becomes a unique tourist route that can present the changes over the past hundred years in China.
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