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This is 3hours private tour, follow our professional tour guide to walk in the famous 798 Art District. Private transportation for the tour, hotel pick up and drop off is included. Two options for this tour booking, the morning tour depart at 8am, the afternoon tour depart at 2pm.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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This is 3hours private tour, follow our professional tour guide to walk in the famous 798 Art District. Private transportation for the tour, hotel pick up and drop off is included. Two options for this tour booking, the morning tour depart at 8am, the afternoon tour depart at 2pm.
Itinerary
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Stop At: 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015 China
This tour has two options for departure time, you can either choose the departure time to be 8am in the morning or 2pm in the afternoon.
After your tour guide pick you up from your hotel lobby at downtown area, then come to visit the famous 798 Art District, it is named after the 798 factory which was built in 1950s. The 798 Art District is located in the northeast corner of Beijing. It is also called the Dashanzi Art District (DAD) as it sits in Dashanzi zone. 798 Art District covers an area of 148 acres (60 hectares), with Jiuxianqiao Road to its west, Beijing-Baotou railway to its east, Jiangtai Road to its south and Jiuxianqiao Road North to its north. Characterized by modern art, it has become the exhibition center of Chinese culture and art, and also the world-famous cultural and creative industries centralized area.
Now the 798 Art Zone has attracted a great deal of attention from the media at home and abroad; and it also has become the new regional mark of the city. Galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, artists’ studios, fashionable shops, restaurants, bars etc. now assemble here. By January 2008, over 400 cultural organizations, coming from France, Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, have settled down in the zone.
Nowadays, it frequently holds important international art exhibitions and art activities as well as fashion shows. In order to expand the reputation and influence of the art zone and to promote the development of modern art, the zone has held the 798 Art Festival (from the end of April to the end of May) every year since 2006. Another festival is the 798 Creative Art Festival (from the end of September to the end of October). The two festivals focus on exhibition and communication of culture and art.
After finished the visit of 798 Art District,your tour guide will take you back to your hotel. The tour will be finished then.
Duration: 3 hours
