Completed in 1970 on a hillside within Kenting Forest Recreation Area, this was the southernmost of Chiang Kai-shek’s guesthouses, offering panoramic views of the coast and Dajian Mountain (大尖山). The three-storey building was constructed with marble staircases and cypress flooring and featured secret entrances to an underground escape tunnel. After the Chiang era the hotel passed through several operators, including Caesar Park (凱薩) in the 1990s and a period under Forestry Bureau management, before being acquired by the Gloria Hotel Group (華泰集團) in 2011. It has since been extensively renovated into the luxury Gloria Manor (華泰瑞苑). The original CKS study on the first floor has been preserved with its redwood furnishings.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Liberty Times (自由時報)
Themes
- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Chiang Kai-shek Guesthouses (蔣公行館)
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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.