East China
The Bund, Shanghai
上海外滩 · Shanghai, Shanghai
Shanghai's iconic riverside promenade, where colonial heritage faces the futuristic Pudong skyline.
The Bund is a celebrated waterfront along the Huangpu River, lined with a row of early-20th-century buildings that once housed banks, trading houses and consulates. Across the river rises the glittering Pudong skyline of the Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower. The contrast between old and new defines modern Shanghai.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries the Bund was the financial heart of the International Settlement, and its European-style buildings reflect Shanghai's treaty-port era. After decades of change it was revitalised into a pedestrian promenade and remains the city's most famous meeting place.
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