Koxinga Shrine

A Fujian-style shrine in central Tainan honouring Koxinga, the seventeenth-century Ming loyalist who expelled the Dutch and established a short-lived kingdom on Taiwan. The present complex, rebuilt in the 1960s, arranges its halls, courtyards, and memorial museum around quiet gardens planted with plum trees. It is the only shrine in Taiwan built in the northern Chinese palace style, apart from the island's usual southern temple architecture. Steles and exhibits trace Koxinga's campaigns and his status as a folk hero.