Wuzhen, city of the channel

Wuzhen is one of the small cities of the channel placed in the triangle that takes as apexes the cities of Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou. Being one of the last villages "discovered" in the recent years for the tourist industry, it is still one of those that better there preserves his original delight and the destination forced for those that only have occasion to visit one of them.

At a 80 kilometers distance from Hangzhou, it is possible to come after 90 minutes of freeway from this city. Even Shanghai only there are 120 kilometers, but his visista looks like more adecudad from this first city.

In fact, Wuzhen and Hangzhou have supported a strong tie along the history. The ancient culture of Hemudu, which bloomed does seven thousand years in the region, it had one of his principal establishments in the area where the current Wuzhen is.

Compared to others "villages of the channel" of the nearby region, for Wuzhen only they cross pair of channels, although the Big Channel happens just for the western end of the village. Nevertheless, the buildings constructed the shore of these channels and his parallel streets, preserve all the flavor of the ancient times. Not in vain to come the last one to the tourist career, his renewal plan began ten years later that that of the famous Zhouzhuang, there has allowed to him to be still a careful plan of conservation and renewal based on the existing designs of the traditional constructions.

The most typical houses of Wuzhen are the calls "Pavilions on the Water" (shuige in Chinese). They are constructed on a few big trunks of trees that sink deeply at the bottom of the river. The panorama of these "Pavilions on the Water" that happen quite along the river, with his numerous bridges crossing every few meters, have his counterpoint in the abstinence of the street that runs parallel, where the lintels wooden doors beautifully sculpted, they hover on the stone pavement like a witness of the past.

Authentic treasures preserve these wooden doors after them, since they are preserved the majority perfectly, and they have been used at present to create a series of museums that describe in detail the traditional life in this region, perhaps the most typical of the China of the south.

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