Few carved Italian characters on the fortress's wall

[andarchen]

The fortress named Jingyuancheng(靖远城) locates at 1 km north of Laolongtou in Shanhaiguan.
The fortress was used as Italian camp during Eight-Power Allied Forces war of aggression against China in 1902. its northern gate locates at 39°58'33.09"N 119°47'23.45"E was still well preserved , few characters in Italian can be seen on the bricks inside gate wall .

The fortress isn't opened for public .

Outside of Northern gate


Inside of northern gate


Characters on the gate's wall




House in camp locates at 39°58'20.92"N 119°47'32.43"E i guess.


Another house in the camp

[PWCCA]

Wow, what a great find. Thanks for sharing. Thats the only Great Wall related grafitti that I welcome, haha

[andarchen]

Originally Posted by PWCCA

Wow, what a great find. Thanks for sharing. Thats the only Great Wall related grafitti that I welcome, haha

It might become a hot spot if touring bureau of Shanhaiguan open this fortress for foreign vistors.

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by andarchen

It might become a hot spot if touring bureau of Shanhaiguan open this fortress for foreign vistors.

I agree. I was a bit disappointed when you mentioned it was closed. I look forward to seeing it anyway, even if only from the outside.

This reminds me of the fortress at Shentangyu, which I was also sorry to find closed and was only able to see from the outside.

[andarchen]

Originally Posted by Bryan

I agree. I was a bit disappointed when you mentioned it was closed. I look forward to seeing it anyway, even if only from the outside.

This reminds me of the fortress at Shentangyu, which I was also sorry to find closed and was only able to see from the outside.

The fortress was used a resort for retired railworkers , i don't think there are guards standing outside gate now . it might be ok for just seeing italian's grafitti on the gate's wall .

[andarchen]

Italian soliders appeared ultimately, three soliders stand in front of Jingyuancheng fort .They might know who carved characters on inside wall of gate.

[chinoook]

The meaning of the italian characters beneath the 靖远 is "Italian Fortress".


-chinoook

[Lingyu]

What a great finding it is! Thank you Andarchen.

[andarchen]

Originally Posted by Lingyu

What a great finding it is! Thank you Andarchen.

One more story about Italian during Eight-Power Allied Forces war :

Britians refused Italians closing the private and wide beach their owned to swimming , Italian dug a hole on GW and coving iron inside hole , the well-known hole named Tiemenguan(English: iron gate Chinese:铁门关) by local people is still existing now .
Picture below is map of story,red line in picture is path of GW and white line is wall of fortress no army occupied at that time.No picture of Tiemenguan was found yet.

[andarchen]

Tiemenguan(铁门关) was found, it locates at 39°58'18.77"N 119°47'41.01"E,and picture: