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Phuket Sino-Portuguese Mansion & Museum Pilgrimage - Architecture of the Tin Dynasty

Half-day

4 stops · Half-day

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An architecture-and-history buff's course touring the Sino-Portuguese-style mansions and offices left by wealthy Chinese merchants who prospered in the 19th-century tin-mining boom. The interior of a mansion used as a film set, a former Chinese-school museum, and the first foreign bank building.

Half-day4 stopsEst. budget 20,000 KRW

Itinerary

  1. 1

    Baan Chinprachaบ้านชินประชา (Baan Chinpracha)

    Museum · 50 min stay

    A Sino-Portuguese mansion built in 1903. Italian tiles and antique furniture are preserved intact and open to view inside. A film and drama location, the cream of architectural detail.

    오전

  2. Walk 4 min
    2

    Thaihua Museumพิพิธภัณฑ์ภูเก็ตไทยหัว (Thaihua Museum)

    Museum · 50 min stay

    A museum in a former Chinese-language school building. Exhibits on tin-mining, Chinese migration history and food culture pull together the context of Phuket's urban formation at once.

    낮

  3. Walk 8 min
    3

    Phuket Philatelic Museum (Old Post Office)พิพิธภัณฑ์ตราไปรษณียากร (Philatelic Museum)

    Architecture · 30 min stay

    A 1930s former post-office building. A modest buff's course for its colonial-style facade and Phuket postal history, and a good exterior photo point.

    낮

  4. Walk 7 min
    4

    Soi Romanee & Old Chartered Bankซอยรมณีย์ / Old Chartered Bank

    Street · 40 min stay

    The most colorful pastel alley Soi Romanee and the Chartered Bank building, once Thailand's first foreign bank. The street itself is an open-air exhibition of Sino-Portuguese architecture.

    오후

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