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The Three Pagodas are an ensemble of three independent pagodas arranged on the corners of a equilateral triangle, near the town of Dali, Yunnan province, China, dating from the time of the Nanzhao kingdom and Kingdom of Dali.

The Three Pagodas are made of brick and covered with white mud. As its name implies, the Three Pagodas comprise three independent pagodas forming a symmetric triangle.

The main pagoda, known as Qianxun Pagoda, reportedly built during 823-840 AD by king Quan Fengyou of the Nanzhao state, is 69.6 meters high and is one of the tallest pagodas in China’s history. The central pagoda is square shaped and composed of sixteen stories; each story has multiple tiers of upturned eaves. The other two sibling pagodas, built about one hundred years later, stand to the north-west and south-west of Qianxun Pagoda. They are 42.19 meters high. Different from Qianxun Pagoda, they are solid and octagonal with ten stories.

(From Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pagodas)
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Author Arian Zwegers from Brussels, Belgium
Camera location25° 42′ 17.29″ N, 100° 09′ 08.01″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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