Historical landmark
Thanh Toan Bridge
Wooden, tile-roofed bridge funded by a childless noblewoman, honored with an annual altar rite.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Thanh Toan Bridge outside Hue follows the noblewoman Tran Thi Dao, who spent her own fortune building it in seventeen seventy-six for the mandarin's home village she married into. You'll hear why a wife with no children of her own chose strangers to leave her legacy to, and how two emperors, a world apart in time, both moved to honor her name for it. Listen from beneath the tiled roof, where villagers still gather every August to remember her.
This audio guide was created using AI.