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SAIGON CITY ART TOUR HALF DAY - MOST POPULAR SAIGON CITY ART TOUR
SAIGON CITY ART TOUR HALF DAY - MOST POPULAR SAIGON CITY ART TOUR
Tour Information
Length 5 hours
Start From Your hotel
Tour Type Art Tour
Price: $ 38.00
- Art has many forms of art such as classical art and modern art. But this tour itinerary we would like to introduce to you the French art architecture in Vietnam and the ancient houses of Vietnam. As well as traditional Vietnamese painting and lapuered painting arts. China colonized Vietnam for nearly 1,000 years and the French colonized Vietnam for nearly 100 years but all failed. The colonists began exploring Vietnam in 1856 and in 1858 the French colonialists attacked Vietnam in Da Dang.
- Ten years later, the French colonialists occupied six southern provinces of Vietnam, namely Saigon City and surrounding provinces and the Mekong River. French colonialists destroyed many houses of Saigon, especially Gia Dinh citadel. And they built many French-style buildings in the heart of Saigon and called it the miniature city of Paris. After 1954 the French colonialists had to withdraw their troops from Vietnam but left many Western-style architectural works such as Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon Central Post Office, Opara House of City, Saigon City Hall, Fine Arts Museum... a half day top tour of classic and contemporary Art in Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon combines with Saigon's exciting history to know about Vietnamese art.
- Former Gia Dinh Citadel
- Fine Arts Museum
- Vinh Nghiem Pagoda
- Coffee Workshop
- Lacquerware Painting Workshop
- Silk Embroidery Painting
- Former French Opium Workshop
- Mong Bridge
The art tour takes 5 hours and will visit the following locations:
- Former Gia Dinh Citadel - (Gia Dinh Citadel, this is a relic with a long time of history left over after many ups and downs of the history of Saigon. Thanh Gia Dinh was built in 1790 under Lord Nguyen Phuc Anh. This is considered a relic still exists after many years of history of Saigon).
- Coffee Workshop - (As usual, the coffee is brewed by machine or filter, but the specialty of this cafe is brewing coffee with a racket. This is a particularly interesting thing with a 60-year-old coffee shop in a street of Saigon. Discover the tradition of the simple life of Saigon people).
- Lacquerware Painting Workshop - (In addition to the simple and effective souvenirs such as bamboo chopsticks, coconut chopsticks, hand fans, conical hats made with fine art materials. Besides, lacquer and oil painting are very famous in Vietnam. You visit the traditional Lacquerware Workshop, you know the process to make a lacquer product, combined with materials for lacquer how to store and display).
- Former French Opium Workshop - (After conquering Saigon, the French colonized 6 provinces and cities in the South of Vietnam. In 1861, the French colonialists built an opium processing factory at 174/7 Hai Ba Trung Street, now Hoa Tuc Restaurant and other restaurants in a garden that had been the opium processing center of French).
- Fine Arts Museum - (Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum was built in 1929 with western architectural style. The building became an art museum in 1992, a 3-storey building displaying paintings, sculptures, antiques and is considered the largest art museum in Vietnam). This place is also considered as a collection of art paintings such as lacquer paintings, oil paintings with wonderful landscapes through all ages called classical and contemporary paintings. Especially, you will admire Champa sculpture art.
- Oil Painting Art Gallery - Your living room, bedroom, dining room and kitchen will be more beautiful when there are great artistic paintings. You will visit the classical and contemporary gallery of paintings as well as meet and interact with the artists who have created high-quality, delicate and inspiring art paintings.
- Silk Embroidery Painting - Silk embroidery paintings - this is a special hand-made embroidery place from the highland city dubbed the city of the flower kingdom, the foggy city that is Dalat city. Hand-made embroidery paintings made of silk from Dalat city are the place where silkworms are raised to make silk fabrics for embroidery.
- Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon - (The basilica of the Notre Dame Cathedral was built in 1877 and inaugurated in 1880. After passing the architect drawing contest in 1866, the French architect named J. Bourard won 16 other architects with Roman architectural style combined with Gothic architectural style has been chosen. All construction materials were imported from France to build with the 57m high bell tower, the width of the church is 33m and 93 long with 6 bronze bells named with 6 musical notes called Sol, La, Si, Do, Re, Mi with the weight of bells 28 tons).
- Saigon Central Post Office - (Central Post Office looks like a train station. But it is actually a original Post Office of Saigon Center designed by a French architect named Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born in 1832 and died in 1923. In Vietnam, he designed Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi Capital, Truong Tien Bridge in Hue Citadel, Dong Nai Railway Bridge and Central Post Office in Saigon).
- Mong Bridge - (Mong Bridge is considered one of the oldest bridges in Saigon. Built in 1893 built of solid steel. Here you can take pictures with beautiful and peaceful views of Saigon River and the third tallest building of Vietnam Bitexco Building).
- Vinh Nghiem Pagoda - (Vinh Nghiem pagoda was built in 1964 by two Buddhist Monks Thich Tam Giac and Thich Thanh Kiem with the style of Zen Buddhist padoda of Truc Lam).
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TOUR INCLUSIONS
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- An art expert with fluent speaking English as guide
- All entrance fees
- Mineral water, wet tissue
- Vietnamese coffee
TOUR EXCLUSIONS
- Personal expenses
- Other things
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