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Thread: Anybody know Kaiping Diaolou ?
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[quote=LESAIGNEUR ,2930]Kaip?g is located in southwest of Guangzhou 136km and 164km from the Macau borderyou have various architectures, which are partly Portuguese Gothic.Some squat brick fortresses dating back to the 17th century were intended as places of refuge for whole villages.Simple concrete towers were merely lookout points intended to provide warning of approaching bandits, but by the 1920s these had evolved into massive fortified residences up to nine stories high, sprouting turrets and loopholes, balconies and cupolas, borrowed from half-understood European styles encountered everywhere from Macau to Manila.[/quote]
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