Due to Chongqing’s unique terrain, towns in Chongqing are planned skillfully around the corner edges of the mountains. As of now, there are 46 historical and cultural famous towns in the municipality, including 18 national historical and cultural famous towns, 28 municipal historical and cultural famous towns. Houses in most of these towns are traditional hanging houses and chuandou houses (houses of Gelao people), and they are simple and built from materials readily available. Walls of these houses are mostly siding walls or bay walls and many of the roofs are covered with grey tiles or overhanging gables, with one or two poles protruding the eaves. The streets are well organized and planned adequately, and a unique picture of the towns are formed together with the picturesque mountains and rivers

In the municipality, a list of 29 famous cultural and historical villages is published, of which 1 village, i.e., Anzhen Village in Qingyang Town, Fuling is national, and the other 28 villages are municipal. 

A map of famous historical and cultural villages. Image by Chongqing Geographic Information Center

In addition, 6 historical and cultural streets including 1 national, 5 municipal and 20 traditional feature areas in Chongqing are published. Five types of traditional feature areas are available: traditional Chongqing, immigrants of Ming and Qing Dynasties, port and market opening, second capital during anti-war time and southwest region. 

A map of historical and cultural streets and main-city traditional feature areas in Chongqing 

(Translated by Yang Lifu, Fathom Language Limited)

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