Consulate buildings
From the 19th century.
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The hill that gave the city its name, ringed by the sea on three sides and 42.5 metres high; it was called «North Hill» until a warning beacon was built on it in 1398, sending up smoke by day and fire by night to warn of pirates, after which it became «Yantai», «Smoke Tower», a name that passed to the whole city. After Yantai was opened as a port for foreign trade on 22 August 1861, the first such port in Shandong province, sixteen countries set up consulates in the city, six of them on the hill itself, including those of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Denmark and Japan, and churches, schools, hospitals and trading houses grew up around them. Many of these stone and brick Western buildings still stand among the trees, some now turned into small exhibitions, and on the summit a modern lighthouse 49.25 metres tall, built in 1986 on the site of an older one from 1905, has a lift to a terrace overlooking the city, the harbour and the islands. The park is free and opens from 8:00 to 18:30 in season, while the lighthouse lift costs about CNY 10, per visitor guides. At its foot run a seaside promenade and Guangren Road with its old buildings.
From the 19th century.
With a lift to the top.
By the sea.
Zhifu District, north of central Yantai on the sea
Yes, the park is free, while the lift up the lighthouse costs about CNY 10, per visitor guides.
Yantai is a seafood city and pork is common in its restaurants, but Lanzhou-style noodle shops run by Hui Muslims and displaying the halal sign are found across the city; always ask and check for the sign.
