Jinan as the capital of Shandong Province is a sprawling city known for its many natural springs with the most prominently the park-enclosed Baotu Spring.
And close to Jinan's city center is the expansive Daming Lake with its landscaped islands and parkland fill with temples and pavilions.
Jinan's, Shandong Museum displays a huge collection of regional artifacts, spanning the Neolithic Longshan culture to the Ming dynasty.
Apart from Baotu Spring, Jinan other springs include Black Tiger Spring (Hēihǔ Quán; 黑虎泉) and Five Dragon Pool (Wǔ Lóng Tán; 五龙潭), other sites worth a visit are Thousand-Buddha Hill (Qianfoshan) and Spring City Square (Qian Cheng Guang Chang).
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Jinan is actually an old city dating back some 2,000 years and was the cradle of the Longshan Relics Culture, a prehistoric culture of China founded around the Longshan Town region. Here there is some remains of the ancient Great Wall of the Qi State (in the Zhou Dynasty (770B.C. – 221B.C.), and the colored sculptures of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) are housed in the Lingyan Temple.
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