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Tickets for Nansha Tianhou Palace, seeking strategies for Nansha Tianhou Palace.

Guangzhou Nansha Tianhou Palace ticket price 20 yuan/person. Nansha Tianhou Palace was built in memory of Maureen, the goddess of the sea. It is a building that combines the style of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the momentum of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. Its scale is the largest of its kind in the world today, and it is known as "the first palace in the world"

Guangzhou Nansha Tianhou Palace Traffic

1. Take Guangzhou Metro Line 8 to Wanshengwei, transfer to Metro Line 4, get off at Huangge Motor City Station and transfer to Bus No.360; Take a seat at Jinzhou Station, then transfer to Bus No.4 and Bus No.5 and go straight to Tianhou Palace. Or get off at Jiaomen Station and take Nansha bus on lines 3, 4 and 5 to Tianhou Palace.

2. Take the shuttle bus from Shiqiao to Nansha and get off at Nanbei Station.

Characteristic Landscape of Tianhou Palace in Nansha

Tianhou Palace Square 1

Tianhou Palace Square covers an area of 1.5 hectares, and a stone statue of Tianhou Palace facing the sea of Wang Yang stands in the center, in order to wish fishermen a smooth sailing. This stone statue of Tianhou is 14.5 meters high and consists of 365 pieces of finely carved granite, which symbolizes that Tianhou Niangniang defends her country 365 days a year.

2. Palace architecture

Behind Tianhou Palace Square, the Qing-style buildings are symmetrically arranged and built on the mountain. Behind the square is the main entrance archway of the building complex, which passes through the archway to reach the mountain gate, that is, the main entrance of Tianhou Palace. There are two statues of "Clairvoyance" and "Clairvoyance" in the room.

There are bell towers and drum towers on both sides of the mountain gate, and the bells and drums in the bell and drum towers will ring on time. Above the mountain gate is a hall dedicated to "dancing between the sea and the sky", with the Four Seas Dragon King and Yugui standing on both sides. The Hall of Ursa Major above is the center of the whole Tianhou Palace. There is a woodcarving shrine dedicated to the 3.8-meter-high statue of Tianhou Palace, carved with fragrant catalpa and gilded. In addition to the statue of Tianhou Palace, the main hall also used historical figures to bury the gods for the first time, which is unique. The bedroom is located in the main hall, which is said to symbolize the residence of Tianhou Niangniang. In this bedroom, a loom was specially placed to show that Tianhou Niangniang once saved her father from the sea during a knitting trip when she was 15 years old.

The highest point of the whole building complex is Nanling Tower, which is located in the rear. The tower is 45 meters high and adopts an 8-story pavilion-style building. Nanling Tower overlooks the whole area of Nansha Tianhou Palace.