A cluster of ammunition bunkers tunnelled into the hillside in Xiyu. Construction began in 1900 as part of the Penghu Island Fortress (澎湖島要塞), the Japanese imperial defensive scheme that ringed the archipelago with twelve coastal batteries served by five centralized magazines. The complex includes single and double-chambered dry magazines built for storing smokeless powder, lined with copper sheeting for electromagnetic and moisture isolation, alongside an above-ground cool magazine of stone and timber. Taken over by the ROC military as the Niuxinwan Ammunition Depot (牛心灣彈藥集積所) in 1945, the site was decommissioned and eventually opened to the public in 2021 as the Xiyu Ammunition Magazine Military Cultural Park (西嶼彈藥本庫軍事文化園區). It was upgraded from county-level to national monument status in 2024.
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- Status:Public (公有)
- Heritage designation:National Monument (國定古蹟)
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Penghu Info (澎湖知識服務平台)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Military Fortifications in Taiwan (台灣碉堡)
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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.