Tourist attraction
An Hien Garden House
Rường-style timber garden house, its forty-eight pillars locked by carved joinery with no nails.
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About this audio guide
An Hien Garden House in Hue is one of the city's grandest surviving wooden garden houses, built in the eighteen eighties for a daughter of Emperor Duc Duc on the Perfume River's north bank. This guide follows the house itself: forty-eight timber pillars and hand-carved joints holding up its frame, and the owners who kept it standing, ending with a provincial governor's widow who turned it into a gathering place for writers before her death in nineteen ninety-seven. Look closely at the columns and screens as you walk through.
This audio guide was created using AI.