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Originally established in the 1930s as a privately owned sugar factory on Taiwan’s eastern coast. It shut down after the war but was refurbished in the 1960s and went on to refine sugar into the 1990s. Eventually it was converted into an art and music performance space starting in 2001.
Map
Heritage Designation
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Sugar Industry in Taiwan (台灣糖業)
Series: Taiwan Huandao 2013
An incomplete series of posts about my first bicycle tour around Taiwan in September and October 2013. The complete trip around the main island is known in Chinese as the huándǎo (環島), literally “around the island”, and is typically conducted as a rite of passage for young people in Taiwan. It took me a full lunar month to complete, but I was not in any particular rush, and it can be done in under a week if you’re in a hurry.
Note: this series is far from complete and the quality of each entry varies as it was originally drafted in 2014. Since 2024 I have been revising each entry with and redoing all the photos.
- Katoli’s World (卡多里遊樂園)
- Encore Garden (亞哥花園)
- Lukang Tianhou Temple (鹿港天后宮)
- Jiamuzi Bay Minsu (加母子灣民宿)
- Dulan Hsintung Sugar Factory (都蘭新東糖廠文化園區)
- Harbour City (海灣新城)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.