French Village at Ba Na Hills

On the summit of Ba Na mountain, where the French set up a hill station in 1919, there now stands a stylised European town about a kilometre and a half above the sea. Its streets, squares and towers are assembled from motifs of Burgundian and Alsatian architecture, and in the centre rises the neo-Gothic church of Saint-Denis with stained glass and a chequered floor. The complex opened in 2013 and is reached by a cable car that in its time held several world records for length and change in elevation. Because of the altitude the weather up here is noticeably cooler than in Da Nang, and the village is often swallowed by cloud. The path to the Golden Bridge with its stone hands also begins from here.

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