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Route Introduction

Tainan Park

   Opened in 1917, it is the oldest and biggest park in Tainan City. In Qing Dynasty, before the construction of the park, the Tainan city wall ran through it, most of the parkland was located in the secluded area outside the Great North Gate of Taiwan's capital city, and the southern half was located in the city, as a part of the Great North Gate Street. According to legend, the location of the Qing Dynasty's execution site is on the northeast side of the park, near a nearly 100-year-old rain tree. At the beginning of the Japanese occupation, the Japanese government implemented urban rehabilitation and chose this place as a parkland with a tropical experimental forest, so there are many tree species in the park. In 1934, due to the widening of the Xinding (now Nanmen Road), Chong-Wen Archway (Chongwenfang), which was originally located in front of the Tainan Police Station, was moved here. After the war, the park was renamed "Zhongshan Park", and a curved bridge was built in Yantan. In 2001, the name of the park was named "Tainan Park" again. In 2005, the Tainan Municipal Government collaborated with Tainan Community College to investigate the old trees in Tainan City, and many tree species in Tainan Park were designated as “precious old trees” by the municipal government.