Tianjin might have been my favorite city we visited in China. It was just so fantastically bizarre. I loved the mix of modern Chinese and traditional Western architecture (in the first picture especially), and its "Ancient Culture Street" (pictures 4-5) and "Italian-Style Town" (picture 6) were so strange. Not sure just how long the Ancient Culture Street has been around, though I can say with some certainty that it's not exactly ancient; but I was surprised to learn that the Italian-Style Town has been around for over 100 years. It's gotten a recent facelift, but Tianjin originally brought in an Italian architect to make the dream come alive in the early 1900s. The city isn't any kind of consistently pretty, but it's absolutely got some charm.
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