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Dayan Pagoda

As a key cultural heritage site under state protection and a national AAAAA-class tourist attraction, Dayan Pagoda is acclaimed as a masterpiece of Buddhist architecture in China. Externally the brick pagoda looks like a square cone, simple but grand. One can climb through the seven flights of winding wooden stairs up to the 64-meter high top to appreciate the panoramic view of the ancient city in the distance from the arch-shaped doors on four sides of each story.

Former Morocco Prime Minister Maati Bouabid once visited the Dayan Pagoda.

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