Zürichhorn
Lakeside park built around a temple garden raised by hand by visiting Chinese craftsmen.
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This guide to Zürichhorn park in Zurich opens at the Chinese Garden gate, marked with nine rows of brass studs, a design once reserved for the emperor alone. It traces the debt behind it: Zurich engineers who helped rebuild the water and drainage system of its sister city Kunming in the 1980s, repaid when a crew of Kunming craftsmen spent five months in 1993 raising a temple garden by hand on this shore. You'll hear about the hexagonal pavilion, the circular pavilion tied to a fifth cardinal direction, and the dragon figures guarding the roofline against fire. Walk the pond's edge to spot the bamboo lattice windows and lotus tiles they carved.
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