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Published: June 23rd 2009
A quick trip to Anping on the west side of Tainan. It was ruled by the Dutch for just 38 years but they are the ones who got the town started and established it as an important place for trade back in the 1600s. At that time Anping was an island, but since then there has been a build up of silt and it is now connected to Tainan. In 1661, some bastard named Koxinga was running away from enemies in ...
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Kim
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My history lesson:
AnAnping Fort: Rich colonial history, possible future flashpoint Nearly three centuries ago, the Dutch stormed the shores of Taiwan and seized a military bastion near the beach in Tainan as their command center. They called this place “Fort Zeelandia,” (n-!) and put the finishing touches on it in 1634, replete with mounted cannons, high brick walls, and a lookout tower to keep an eye out for aboriginal or Taiwanese insurgents. Long after the gunpowder plumes and cannon blasts have settled into history, what we have inherited today is a lovely park shaded with enormous, gnarled banyan trees reminiscent of those found in Angkor Wat almost and bullet-chipped brick walls surrounding a museum-like fortress.......TOO BAD for the DUTCH, they could have had a DUTCH WONDERLAND!!!!!!!