Yu Garden

The Yu Garden (also Yu Yuan Gardens Chinese豫园/豫园, Pinyin Yuyuan ) applies in Shanghai as one of the finest examples of garden art in China. The garden offers a number of architectural features.

It was built in 1559 by Pan Yunduan, a senior official of the Ming Dynasty, as a private garden in an area of two hectares. During the First Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion and during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the parks were damaged, renovated in the late 1950s and opened to the public in the Park 1961. The garden is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1982.