Zhan Garden

The finest surviving classical garden in Nanjing, tracing its origins to the residence of a Ming founding general and later linked to the Taiping rebel administration that governed the city in the nineteenth century. Its two garden sections flank a hall and feature a large rockery of piled Taihu stones, a winding pond, covered galleries and pavilions in the refined Jiangnan style. A museum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now occupies part of the grounds. Visitors thread the rockery caves and waterside walkways and view relics of the rebellion.