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Yet Shanghai also offers activities that cost nothing, from walking on the riverfront Bund to sculpture parks and historic sites. Here are five.

A walk along the Bund is an introduction to the essence of big, bold, fashionableShanghai.

The avenue is lined with art deco buildings from the 1920s and when Shanghai was the New York of the Far East. The Bund was its Wall Street, home to international banks and trading houses. The city stability attracted migrants who left behind poverty and fighting elsewhere. While other areas ty have been bulldozed for new development, but the Bund classic appearance has been preserved.

At the Bund north end is the Peace Hotel, one of Shanghai most famous buildings, where celebrities such as Cole Porter stayed before World War II. Nearby is a statue of Chen Yi, the city first communist mayor in the south, buildings including the former headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank now house designer shops like Ermenegildo Zegna and Cartier. At the corner of Guangdong Road, the seventh floor terrace of restaurant M offers a panoramic view across the river to Pudong, the financial district.

The Bund name comes from the Hindi word for barrier and refers to the riverside commerce embankment. Today,fake rolex daytona, the piers are gone and the view of the river from the street is blocked by a floodwall built in the Visitors can climb to the top of the barrier where a wide pedestrian walkway gives a view of the river and Pudong forest of skyscrapers, with the Oriental Pearl Television Tower over them.

The Hongfang Creative Industrial Zone, created in 2005 out of renovated factories, houses galleries including the Shanghai Sculpture Space, open Tuesday Sunday, which shows work by Chinese and foreign contemporary artists. The building surrounds a grassy courtyard with sculptures that include bulls and horses made of auto parts and car size heads of Albert Einstein and former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The district is on Weihai West Road, a five minute walk east of the Hong qiao Road station on the No. 3 subway or 10 minutes west of Weihai West Road station on the No. 10.

The Moganshan Road Art District, on the bank of Suzhou Creek, is older and more commercial. galleries are housed in old textile factories and warehouses. Moganshan mix of industrial and arty is a favorite backdrop for Chinese fashion photographers. It a 20 minute walk south of the Zhongtan Station on the No. 3 or 4 subways.

Jing Sculpture Park, on Beijing West Road west of the North South Expressway, is an oasis of green among high rises. The 15 acre park has monumental works in stone, steel and other materials by artists including American Jim Dine, Belgium Wim Delvoye and Ram Katzir of Israel. Some are sturdy enough for children to climb. On weekends, kids skate there while adults play badminton on the lawn.

The Former Residence of Mao Zedong commemorates the period in 1924 when the future leader of China revolution was a communist activist living in Shanghai. The space has displays on early Communist history. The building, is an example of shikumen, or stone gate, architecture. 120 Maoming North Road, south of Weihai Road, not far from the Nanjing West Road station on the No. 2 subway.

The Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China commemorates the first party meeting in 1921 by Mao Zedong and 12 fellow leftists,replica rolex daytona price. The memorial on Huangpi South Road and Xingye Road south of People Square also has a museum.

Ironically, the memorial abuts the tony Xintiandi complex of boutiques and restaurants. It is a product of Deng market style reforms launched in the to revive an economy wrecked by three decades of Soviet style central planning.

People Square is the heart of modern Shanghai. Built on the site of a colonial horse track, it was the only large open space in the crowded city for decades until a wave of park construction in the the square southern edge is the Shanghai Museum. Many items from its collections of porcelains,ladies daytona rolex replica, jades, paintings and bronzes.

To the northeast is the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, with a scale model of Shanghai fast changing cityscape and exhibits on its evolution.

To the northwest the Shanghai Art Museum has displays of contemporary art. The square is just south of People Square Station on the No,rolex daytona womens fake. 1 or 8 subways.

Fuxing Park, southwest of People Square is a French style park with fountains and gardens.

Lu Xun Park, in the Hongkou district north of downtown, has lawns, trees and a lake. His tomb in the park bears an inscription from Mao.

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