Yinshan Pagoda Forest, Beijing 北京银山塔林

Location: China, Beijing, Changping Google Maps Amap
Part of: Beijing, National 4A Tourist Attraction, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit
Nearby: Ming Tombs ←︎8km, Badaling Great Wall ←︎26km, The Great Wall ←︎26km, The Summer Palace, Beijing ↓︎37km, The Forbidden City (Palace Museum), Beijing ↓︎45km, The Temple of Heaven, Beijing ↓︎50km, Stone Flower Cave ↙︎66km, Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan), Beijing ↓︎34km, Archaeological Museum of China ↓︎37km, Olympic Park, Beijing ↓︎37km

The Yinshan Pagoda Forest lies at the southern foot of Mount Yinshan in northern Changping District, Beijing: a group of funerary pagodas for eminent monks of the Great Yansheng Temple and other monasteries, dating from the Jin dynasty onward. The sheer dark cliffs behind were known of old as the “Iron Wall of Silver Mountain”. More than ten pagodas survive from the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing; the tallest are five Jin brick pagodas with multiple close-set eaves, their bodies carved with brackets, doors and windows in imitation of timber construction.

Photo: mayanming (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)