Yellow Crane Tower

Yellow Crane Tower is a conventional Chinese tower located in Yellow Crane Tower Wuchang District, Wuhan, in crucial China. The modern structure was built in 1981, however the tower has existed in diverse forms since not later than AD 223. The modern Yellow Crane Tower is 51.4 m high and covers an area of 3,219 m². It located on Snake Hill, one kilometer faraway from the original website, at the banks of the Yangtze River in Wuchang District. The Yuanhe Maps and Records of Prefectures and Counties, written almost 600 years after the construction of the tower, notes that once Sun Quan, founding father of the kingdom of Eastern Wu, built the castle of Xiakou in 223, a tower was built at/at the Yellow Crane Jetty, west of Xiakou, and consequently its name.

The tower has been destroyed twelve instances, each by way of conflict and by using hearth, in the Ming and Qing dynasties and changed into repaired on ten separate occasions. The ultimate tower at the original web site changed into constructed in 1868 and destroyed in 1884. In 1957, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was built with one trestle of the bridge on the Yellow Crane Tower's site. In 1981, the Wuhan City Government commenced reconstruction of the tower at a new vicinity, about 1 km from the original web site, and it changed into finished in 1985. On January 31, 2018, Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, visited Wuhan and took pictures at the Yellow Crane Tower.