Huangyaguan Grea Wall - Located 20km north of Jixian county of Tianjin, this section was an important fort of North Great Wall in Ming Dynasty. The Great Wall here was first built in 556 on top of the mountain ridge, then covered up with bricks on the surface in 1567 to 1572. Known as "Mt Huangya of thousands of pagodas", this section has many pagodas aw well as dozens of grandiose watchtowers set up by Qi Ji-guang, chief commander of Ji Defense.

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