Lingering Garden

UNESCO-listed Ming-Qing garden, famed for its rockeries and the 6.5m central limestone scholar's-rock 'Crown of Clouds'.

Lingering Garden was originally laid out in the late Ming and rebuilt in the late Qing. The 2.3-hectare garden is famous for its rockeries: in particular, the 'Crown of Clouds' scholar's rock, a 6.5m fissured Taihu limestone considered one of the finest in any Suzhou garden. The interconnecting corridor system and the 'Mandarin Duck Hall' inner architecture are also celebrated.