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Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, Hubei (14)

（China.org.cn）  15:23, April 27, 2013  

Located on Snake Hill of Wuchang, Yellow Crane Tower is known as one of the Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River, together with Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Tengwang Tower in Jiangxi. First built in 223 A.D during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), it has been destroyed multiple times and the current structure was rebuilt in 1981. Covering a constructing area of 3,219 square meters, it has five-stories, totaling 51.4 meters high. It covered with more than 100,000 yellow glazed tiles, which looks very glorious and magnificent in good weather. It is now regarded as the symbol of Wuhan city. (China.org.cn)

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