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interesting historic buildings. And the
canal towns
of Zhouzhuang, Tongli
and Xitang are attractive places to wander, though they are firmly on the
tourist circuit. If it's at all possible, visit all of these places on a weekday; of n
weekends, they can get crowded.
She Shan
Such is the flatness of the surrounding land that
She Shan
(daily 7.30am-
4pm; ¥5), which only rises about 100m, is visible for miles around. The hill
is crowned by an impressive
basilica
, a legacy of nineteenth-century
European missionary work - She Shan has been under the ownership of a
Catholic
community since the 1850s - though the present church was not
built until 1925.
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