Tainan

Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan. With its time-honor 300-year history, the city is well woven into the fabric of rich culture and interesting anecdotes. Details hidden inside the corners of streets, they yield the footprints left behind by ancestors as well as those precious, little stories being passed down generation by generation. Go on a gate trip to see and feel how Tainan, also once “Prefecture City”, has evolved and developed, and how those ancient gates closely interact with its geography, commerce and human activities. There are also many important heritage sites in Tainan. Due to traditional architectures and the surroundings around being revived and renovated, local art, industrial activities, and sightseeing are hence enhanced accordingly.

Historic streets and old houses, on the other hand, are life reflection of all different eras, carrying and preserving memories and spaces of ordinary Taiwanese people. Let those heritage sites and historic streets guide you to explore and witness Tainan cements an irreplaceable status in Taiwan history.

 

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Xinhua Old Street

Xinhua Old Street

Since the Japanese Colonial Period, Xinhua (新化) has been a major political and commercial center at the gateway to the mountains of Tainan. You can probably imagine merchants of the time gathering to make deals with Japanese, Han Chinese and Pingpu aborigines. The large numbers of foreign style houses and street houses built here formed a prosperous commercial street, and business was extremely lively. Today’s Xinhua Old Street(新化老街) features well-preserved old foreign style houses and Baroque style buildings covered in tasteful designs and carvings. Tourists walking down the street chance upon old stores with decades of history and take a look in each of the stores. The grocery store reminds them of their childhood, as does the scenes of the shopkeepers loudly shouting to sell their products; it is as if the prosperity of the olden days has returned.

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