Pingyao is a city in China with preserved medieval buildings and the remaining intact city wall...

Pingyao is a city in China with preserved medieval buildings and the remaining intact city wall, the capital of Shanxi Province. The city's location on the banks of the Yellow River allowed it to become one of the region's most important trading centers. Pingyao is a wonderful city and worth a visit to get an idea of ​​what traditional Chinese cities looked like in the past.

If you come to Pingyao from the north, you will see from the best side a battlemented city wall 6.4 km long and 10 m high, the original building of 1370 - at that time the inhabitants feared the attacks of the Mongols, who had just been expelled from China.