Taipei North Gate

Constructed in 1884, Taipei North Gate (Chinese: 臺北府城北門), formally Cheng'en Gate (Chinese: 承恩門), is the best-preserved gate of the Walls of Taipei, and is a National Monument of Taiwan.[1][2][3] Its design is a 2-story closed blockhouse of solid construction with traditional Chinese wooden roof truss and streamlined carved ornamentations. [4] Important in the Qing layout of the city, restoring it to visual prominence in the city has been a feature of recent urban planning.[5][6] It gives its name to Beimen metro station.

References
  1. "臺北府城—東門、南門、小南門、北門" National Cultural Heritage Web https://nchdb.boch.gov.tw/assets/overview/monument/19980903000001
  2. "Taipei City Wall-North Gate (Cheng'en Gate) | Taipei Travel". travel.taipei. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. "The North Gate Taipei – the Gate Through the Past | We Fun Taiwan 一起玩台灣". wefuntaiwan.com. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  4. 王庭玫 (2007), p. 50.
  5. "第二階段規劃". 西區門戶計畫.
  6. CHIU, Kuo-wei. "Urban Transconfiguration of a Colonial-Modern City: Towards Inclusive Historical Metamorphosis."

References
  • 王庭玫, ed. (2007). 臺北市古蹟巡覽 [Historical sites in Taipei] (in Chinese). Vol. 2. Taipei: 藝術家. ISBN 9789867034373.

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