What is there to do in Weitang Town, Suzhou City?

The famous tourist attraction in Weitang Town is the "Wan'an Bridge", located in North Xuejing, Fenghuangjing Village, Weitang Town, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City.

Wan'an Bridge was built as a wooden bridge in the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, it was rebuilt as a three-hole granite beam bridge. The total length of the bridge is 25 meters, of which the middle hole bridge deck is the longest. 6.9 meters long. The words "Free the Official River" and "No Harvesting" are engraved on both sides of the middle-hole bridge pier. There are two seal script bridge couplets left on both sides of the bridge. There are also ship cables and stones on the bridge body. The bridge decks of the side holes are each 5.1 meters long, the bridge width is 3 meters, and the height is 2.9 meters. The bridge deck stones are paved with rectangular stone slabs. The whole bridge is strong and practical, tall and beautiful.

In 2009, Wan'an Bridge was announced by the municipal government as the sixth batch of Suzhou cultural relics protection units.

Protection range: 2.5 meters in the north, 7 meters in the south, east and west.

Weitang Town, the hometown of pearls, "Freshwater pearls are treasured in Weitang". Weitang pearls are famous both at home and abroad for their "big, bright, round and bright". As a result, Weitang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, has also been tainted with "jewelry". Names such as Pearl Lake, Yupan Road, Zhulian Bridge, Bihe Bridge, and Pearl Bridge have combined with the pearl industry in the entire town to create a unique pearl cultural atmosphere.