The City of Kaifeng, Henan, China

10. Kaifeng Iron Tower

The Tower is an octagonal building of 13 storys with a height of 55.88 meters, the width of each side at the base is 4.16 meters, and it is decreasing from the base to the top levels. The body of the tower was erected with colorful pattern bricks with over 50 designs of the celestial flying ladies, the unicorn, Buddha, musician and dancers, lions, etc, the style is charming, vivid and lifelike, it's worthy to be the artistic masterpiece of Song Dynasty. The Iron Tower is well known at home and abroad with its unique art of architecture, the design is fine and excellent, strong in structure, it withstands numerous attacks of earthquake, floods but not dropped down .