Walls of Taipei

The Taipei City Walls (Chinese: 臺北府城; pinyin: Táiběi Fǔchéng) were constructed in 1884 in Taipeh Prefecture, Taiwan, Qing dynasty (modern-day Taipei, Taiwan).

Shortly after the Qing dynasty established Taipei Prefecture in 1875, Prefect Chen Hsing-chü (陳星聚) ordered the foundation of a new prefectural capital with enclosing walls in 1879.

[1] However the soil proved too soft to support so heavy a structure,[2] and the project was halted.

Subsequently, governor of Fujian Cen Yu-ying (岑毓英) and Taiwan magistrate Liu Ao (劉璈) undertook successive surveys to determine the proper location of the wall's foundations.

Its design is a 2-story closed blockhouse of solid construction with traditional Chinese wooden roof truss and streamlined carved ornamentations.