Shanghai Xianyuan (Fengpu Four Seasons Ecological Park) is a dilapidated classical palace themed park. Although it is unknown why the park has fallen into disrepair, it gives off a sense of inexplicable sadness and is very touching. It is a great travel destination. Below is a detailed travel guide and strategy.
Where is Shanghai Xianyuan?
Address: 515 Hanyi Road, Fengpu Community, Fengxian District, Shanghai
Overall, the building design is very exquisite. It is definitely not an ordinary imitation building. The palace exterior wall has intricate patterns, and the roof also has many decorative patterns. The entire palace presents a symmetrical hollow “cross”, which is located on an island. There are bridges connecting the island. The ground and aerial photography are very beautiful.
This ruined palace is located in a free park called “Fengpu Four Seasons Ecological Park” (also known as “Xianyuan”). As long as you enter the park and look at the tour map, you can immediately find the location of this palace because its shape is so special.
Many tourists who come to the park pass by the entrance to the palace, but because the west gate of the palace is closed, they cannot see the dilapidated scenery inside with weeds growing. They have never seen the appearance of the courtyard. In fact, at the railing of the island bridge, there is a place where you can go down to the river path, then reach a deserted flowerbed, and then enter the abandoned palace building from the south gate.
Fengxian District in southern Shanghai is a place where many niche tourist destinations in Shanghai are located. The “Fengpu Four Seasons Ecological Park” is located in Fengpu Town, Fengxian District, covering an area of 180,000 square meters. It is a large park in the south of Shanghai. It was once the largest free park in Fengxian that was open to the public. It was later surpassed by the park complex near “Shanghai Fish”. At present, the “Shanghai Fish” Bubble Park in Fengxian area is still a free children’s playground in the minds of many Shanghainese.
The “Fengpu Four Seasons Ecological Park” has many European buildings and landscape sculptures. In the early years, it was a wedding photography base for many well-known wedding photography studios in Shanghai, and many people have taken wedding photos here.
To this day, there are still many open European-style buildings and sculptures in the park. In places like the British-style small theater and the French-style courtyard, you can see many people taking wedding photos and photography enthusiasts taking pictures.
It’s just that many people have not entered this seemingly closed Western Palace ruins for many years. The entrance to the ruined palace is relatively hidden, and most people cannot find the correct path to enter.
When you walk into the courtyard of the palace ruins, you will see weeds growing in the middle of the courtyard. The tropical palm trees in the courtyard were originally well-maintained, but because no one takes care of them, they are now withered and half-dead. The vines that used to climb on the walls have also spread and crawled along the ground-printed porcelain tiles.
Due to problems such as water leakage from the top of the building, some gypsum decorative materials have fallen off the top of some building corridors, and some roofs have open holes. In just a few years, this Western Palace building, which was once photographed by countless people for wedding photos, is constantly being abandoned and decaying. However, the unique atmosphere here is becoming stronger and stronger, and its attraction to people is also increasing.
The unique style and exquisite architecture here have attracted many young people. They have fallen in love with this place and gradually spread the word through online means. Tracing back to the source, I don’t know when or who accidentally discovered the road by the bridge, walked into this ruined palace, and the scene in front of them made them amazed. The diverse psychological presentations – curiosity, adventure, showing off, sharing – have made the photos from here start to spread online.
Although many photos shared from here are not precise enough in their descriptions of the shooting location, some people still guessed and discovered the secret of the entrance to this ruined palace. In the end, this became a ruined scenic spot for Internet celebrities in Shanghai, until it attracted me to come here. I am not the first person to fall in love with this place and promote this ruined palace, and I will definitely not be the last.
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