North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda

The North Square lies between the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Datang Buyecheng street and serves as the ceremonial approach to the Daci'en Monastery. It was opened up in 2003, when the old buildings were cleared away and replaced by a stepped cascade some three hundred and fifty metres long with sheets of water, stelae and sculpture groups on Tang subjects. The main draw is the musical fountain, reckoned the largest in Asia, where several thousand jets throw water tens of metres into the air to classical and modern music. Shows are given several times a day, and the evening one runs with lighting and fills the whole square. The rest of the time the cascade stands dry, and from the lower terraces there is a clear view of the pagoda.

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