Tianping Mountain Villa

Tianping Mountain Villa is located at the southeastern foot of Tianping Mountain, 8.5 kilometers west of the city. It was designated as a cultural relics protection unit in Suzhou City in 1982 and in Jiangsu Province in 1995.

The villa mainly consists of five parts: the Zhoubo Temple, Laiyan Pavilion, Fan Canyuan Temple, Gaoyi Garden, and Baiyun Ancient Temple. It also includes the Gaoyi Garden stone archway, Jie Jia Pavilion, Imperial Stele Pavilion, and other ancillary buildings, as well as the Shi Jing Pond, Wan Zhuan Bridge, and ancient maple forest, covering a total area of about 53,000 square meters.

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Tianping Mountain Villa was built by Fan Yunlin, the seventeenth descendant of Fan Zhongyan. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Yunlin declined the position of Fujian’s consultant and returned to his hometown, Suzhou. He built the villa next to Tianping Mountain, creating a unique retreat that utilized the natural landscape of the mountain, with pavilions, long corridors, spring ponds, stone bridges, and mountain pavilions and water pavilions that were brilliant for their time.

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Opening hours are all year round from 08:00 to 17:00.

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