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Yu Garden, located in the downtown area of Shanghai, is a classical garden.
Originally built in 1559 as the private garden in the Ming Dynasty, Yu Garden has a history of more than 400 years and boasts the glory of the most beautiful garden south of the Yangtze River.
It covers an area of more than 30 acres. Each pavilion, hall, stone and stream in the garden is expressing the quintessence of South China landscape design from the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Over forty spots, divided by dragon walls, wound corridors and beautiful flowers, form a unique picture featuring "one step, one beauty; every step, every beauty".
Yu Garden is also a paradise of shopping and leisure full of the fascinating Chinese traditional culture. It is the very good venue for specialist Chinese goods ranging from clothes, small articles, local crafts, jade wares and gold and silver jewelry.