This camera is located in the courtyard of the Chihkan Tower. The picture shows this Class 1 historic site.

Begun in 1653, the Chihkan Tower was built by the Dutch to serve as their administrative center, and was originally known as Fort Provintia. The walls were once 453 feet around and 36 feet in height. The walls of this stronghold were made of bricks imported from Java, while the walls of buildings were made from rock-hard bricks of oyster shell lime mixed with sugar water and glutinous rice paste.

Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga) renamed this fort "Mansion Bestowed by Heaven" and made it his center of government after driving out the Dutch. It was abandoned at the time of Chu Yi-kui's rebellion, and soon thereafter damaged by an earthquake. The external wall and the raised terrace were the only remaining parts. The Haishen Temple and the Wenchang Pavilion on the terrace were built during the late 1800's. 　　Among the most extraordinary historic objects at the Chihkan Tower are the stone turtle tablets bestowed by the Cianlong (Qianlong) Emperor (1736~1796) to General Fu Kang-an. The inscriptions on the turtles commend Fu Kang-an for suppressing the Lin Shuang-wen rebellion. The inscriptions are in parallel Chinese and Manchu, which makes the turtles quite unusual among tablets in Taiwan.

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