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Ba Manzi was an army general of the ancient Ba kingdom. He is best remembered for the manner of his death. History records that he hired some troops from the kingdom of Chu to put down a rebellion, promising to reward the Chu king with three Ba cities. However, when the Chu king came to collect his reward, Ba Manzi refused to cede the land and offered the king his severed head instead. A museum built around the tomb documents Ba Manzi’s life and times.
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大韩民国临时政府旧址陈列馆
This was the site of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1944 to 1945. The site is now a museum. Information is provided in Chinese and Korean only.
大唐广场
A gravity-defying square perched atop a building—street level on one side, but dropping an astonishing 22 storeys on the other, a true showcase of Chongqing’s wild topography.
十八梯
A historic neighborhood on the south side of the Yuzhong Peninsula. This former slum area underwent a major renovation project from 2017 to 2021 and is now fully gentrified and commercialized. The Shibati Memories Museum (十八梯记忆馆) near the northern entrance explains the history of the area.
重庆大轰炸“六五”隧道惨案史实展馆
The museum is at the site of a former air raid shelter where hundreds (some say thousands) of people lost their lives on June 5th, 1941 due to a stampede that occurred during a Japanese bombing raid that day. After visiting the exhibition hall, you can take a guided tour of the tunnel where the tragedy took place.
重庆解放碑步行街, Jiefangbei Shangye Buxingjie
The center of downtown Chongqing. Jiefangbei, or the People’s Liberation Monument, formerly known as the Monument of Victory in the War of Resistance (World War II), is a 27.5-meter-high structure. Around the monument is a broad, paved pedestrian square lined by numerous glassy office skyscrapers and highrise hotels, reminiscent of New York's Times Square or Tokyo's Shibuya district. Jiefangbei Shopping Square, completed in 1997, has a 400-by-350-meter footprint. Around the square are more than 3,000 stores of various kinds, including more than two dozen large malls and shopping centers, dozens of star-graded hotels, and offices such as banks, stock markets, trade and finance companies, postal and telecommunication services, and places of entertainment.
山城第三步道
A suspended walkway clinging to the cliffside, this trail connects historical sites like the Kangjian Hall and the Bodhi Vajra Pagoda. It provides a quiet escape and unique angles to view Chongqing's mountainous urban landscape, away from the crowded tourist hotspots.