Gulin Park, Public park in Nanjing, China.
Gulin Park is a large green space along the west side of Huju Road North in Nanjing, featuring temples, historic structures, and various recreational areas. The grounds include barbecue zones, peony gardens, and an outdoor swimming pool.
The site held a Buddhist temple first recorded as Guanyin Nunnery, built in the Liang dynasty and later renamed Gulin Nunnery, then Gulin Vinaya Temple under the Ming. Destroyed in 1853 during the Xianfeng era, it was rebuilt over some 40 years, burned again in 1900, and rebuilt larger by its abbot. Abandoned in the Republican era, the land became a provincial horticultural farm in 1959, a city nursery in 1964, and a park approved in January 1981 and opened on 23 April 1984.
Gulin Park is one of Jiangsu's ten main plum-viewing sites and has served as a venue for the Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival. Its grounds hold over a thousand peonies, plum trees and herbaceous peonies, and many features are named after plants, such as Azalea Slope, Peony Garden and Plum Ridge.
The park lies on the west side of Huju Road North, near the Nanjing Arts Institute and Qingliang Mountain, at No. 21 Huju Road North in Gulou District. An outdoor swimming pool operates in summer, and picnic areas allow visitors to barbecue. Admission was ten yuan per person, with free entry from 1 May 2014.
The park's highest point is the Sifang Bajing Pavilion, also called Eight Centre Court, a pavilion from which the whole park and the nearby Nanjing TV Tower can be seen. On major holidays fireworks can be watched from it.
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