Hoi An is a old town in the downstream of Thu Bon
river (Thu Bồn - Black) in the coastal plain of Quang Nam province, at
30 km from Danang city (Đà Nẵng). By nature, Hoi An was an urban port,
the city safeguards thus more than thousand architectural vestiges
which are at the same time artistic and cultural in the harmony of
Eastern and Western culture. Until now, centuries passed with the
historical upheavals, each house and each street still reflect these
ancient aspects.
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| Cau pagoda in Hoi An |
According
to researchers, the architectural style of Hoi An was renewed at the
beginning of 19th century after Hoi An lost its role of a commercial
port to yield to Danang's one, a new port built by French people. In
1999, according to static, there were on the whole 1.360 vestiges,
landscapes as temple, pagoda, tomb, bridge, well, church, house...
distributed on the small streets. These monuments are built with the
traditional materials like brick, wood and two stages to the maximum.
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| Quang Dong Club |
Among
the architectural set of this old town, the essential part consists of
the houses, generally distributed in three urban districts (Minh An,
Cẩm Phô, Sơn Phong), namely the old house Tan Ky (Tấn Ký), Phung Hung
(Phùng Hưng), Quân Thang (Quân Thắng), family temple of Trần... The
general style of these monuments is under a pipe's shape which binds
district to district. The narrow front is reserved as a store, the
medium is the yard, the posterior part is as a store and housing,
finally the door communicates with another district or river. The house
is of wooden framework, three parts with an alley in the medium,
covered of tile and paved of brick or stones. On all the former doors,
a piece of wood is carved with symbol of the eight divinatory signs or
the tiger, dragon face. The interior ornament is very sumptuous and
splendid.
In Hoi An, we can recognize the traces of time not only through the architectural style but also on the roofs covered of foam, the gray walls covered of moulds... It seems that time stops there through these last moments.
According to the world heritages in Vietnam
HANOI - HALONG - HUE - DANANG - HOIAN - MY SON - HOCHIMINH
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