QUANG NAM

Khuong My towers

Location: Monument towers of Tam Xuan Khuong US 1, Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam province, near Highway 1A; 2km from Tam Ky city to the southwest.
Features: Complex consists of 3 towers architecture uninterrupted contiguous north-south axis, is the traditional Cham tower.
Doors of the tower in the east and 5 false door (1 in the west, north and south walls each side has 2 doors). 3-storey tower roof, upstairs is the epitome of the lower floors, top with sandstone spiers, towers nearly square substrates. Khuong My towers divided clusters of 3 towers continuum are: North tower, mid tower south tower and the tower which is the smallest North Tower, South Tower is the largest tower. The structure of the tower is relatively the same: Roll out the door Vaulted arches, decorated with stylized herbal, head bent twisted leaves, leaves arranged in many layers, shrink gradually uphill, heart of arch is a combination of leafy foliage bending problems. 5 per buttresses buttresses along the buttresses decorated herbs rolled into the letter S after another, interspersed with decorative wall plaque lozenge after another from the foot to the top of the wall.

Many sculptures found here anonymous Visnu should Khuong My teacher is considered a god Visnu temple area. Most artifacts such as radio churches, statues, reliefs ... are displayed at the Cham Sculpture Museum (Da Nang). The researchers classified them into unique style, American style Khuong (between Dong Duong style and style of Tra Kieu).

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