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Cánh Tiên (Brass) Tower and Đồ Bàn Citadel
Thành Đồ Bàn và Tháp Cánh Tiên
Canh Tien Tower (Tim Doling)
Street address: Thôn An Nam, Xã Nhơn Hậu, Huyện An Nhơn, Tình Bình Định, Việt Nam
Mailing address: Bảo tàng Tỉnh Bình Định, 26 Nguyễn Huệ, Thành Phố Quy Nhơn, Tỉnh Bình Định, Việt Nam
Telephone: 84 (0) 56 822452
Fax: 84 (0) 56 824000
Contact: Đặng Hữu Thọ Manager
Telephone: 84 (0) 56 822452, 84 (0) 91407 6118 (mobile)
Opening hours: 8am-11.30am, 1pm-5.30pm daily
In around 1000 CE, following the loss of Indrapura to the Đại Việt kingdom, Chăm King Sri Yangpuku Vijaya moved his capital south to Đồ Bàn, some 27 kilometres north of present-day Quy Nhơn. The new southern Chăm kingdom became known as Vijaya (‘Victory’). Though repeatedly attacked and plundered by Việt, Khmer and Chinese armies, the citadel constructed at Đồ Bàn remained in existence until 1471, when it was ransacked by Lê Thánh Tôn’s army during the last great battle fought by the Chăm. Thereafter Đồ Bàn was abandoned until the 1770s when the Tây Sơn rebels renamed it Thành Hoàng Đế and made it their base of operations, however the citadel was destroyed in 1814 and another one was built some five kilometres away. The vestiges of the original Đồ Bàn Citadel are located on a hill one kilometre west of Highway 1 and comprise the remains of a rectangular wall measuring 1,400 metres by 1,100 metres. At the centre of the enclosure stands the Cánh Tiên (‘Brass’) Chăm Tower, facing east and constructed in monumental Bình Định style (late 11th-early 14th centuries) in the late 12th-early 13th century, contemporaneously with the similar Phước Lốc (Gold) Tower and Thủ Thiện Tower. Despite its relatively poor condition, the tower features some notable decorative elements. In 2005 the German government donated 100,000 Euros (US$126,000) to a project to restore the tower.
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Date updated: 14 May 2008
 
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