National Tainan Girls’ Senior High School

Founded in 1917 as Tainan Girls’ Higher School (臺灣總督府臺南高等女學校) and relocated to this campus in 1918, the school’s main building (自強樓) is considered among the most well-preserved girls’ secondary school buildings from the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan. The red brick structure is transitional early modernist with neo-Baroque flourishes. A section of the Qing dynasty city wall runs along the southern perimeter, and on campus is a golden rain tree known as the “human rights tree” (人權樹), commemorating alumna Ting Iáu-thiáu (丁窈窕), who was executed during the White Terror.