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Hwangnyongsa Temple Site 황룡사지

Gyeongju, Seoul · 35.8384, 129.2326

Hwangnyongsa Temple Site — photo 1Hwangnyongsa Temple Site — photo 2

Photos: Wikimedia Commons / community

Only the foundation stones remain of Hwangnyongsa, the great Silla temple whose nine-story wooden pagoda — by old accounts around eighty meters tall — burned during the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. What is left is a vast open plain crossed by walking and cycling paths, where the scale of the empty site does the talking. A small history center at the edge shows reconstructions of what once stood here.

Local context

Locals ride through on the bike route linking Bunhwangsa and Woljeonggyo; come in late spring when the green barley around the site is up, or at dusk when the sun drops behind the burial mounds to the west.

Temple ruinsSunset plainCycling route

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