Old street · Xinhua
Xinhua Old Street
新化老街
Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0A row of 1920s and 1930s shophouses with carved Baroque-style fronts along Zhongzheng Road.
History
The street was a business hub for the fruit wholesale trade in the 1920s, and building on the west side began in 1921. In 1937 a Japanese urban plan had the facades along the road remodelled in the Baroque style that survives today.
