Pan Gate
| Pan Gate | |||||||||||||
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The Panmen Land Gate | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 盤門 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 盘门 | ||||||||||||
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Pan Gate, Panmen, or Panmen Gate is a historical landmark in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. It consists of a section of the old Suzhou City Wall that includes two separate gates, one opening to a road for pedestrian and vehicular traffic and another opening to a canal for waterborne vessels. It is thus sometimes known as Suzhou's Land and Water Gate. Pan Gate at the southwest corner of the city's central historic district, with the water gate connecting the city's inner canals and former defensive moat with the nearby Grand Canal.