Recent renovations in Greater Tainan’s Beimen District (北門) have turned the area into a romantic destination and a hotspot for taking wedding photographs, and it is complementing the transition by painting colorful designs on the walls of residences and tourist centers.
Earlier in April, the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area Management Office held a competition to create a park with romance and happiness as the themes, hoping to attract couples, newlyweds and tourists.
The brief of the contest was to come up with designs on “white romance, romantic wedding dresses and white Christmas,” office director Cheng Jung-feng (鄭榮峰) said.
Photo: Yang Chin-cheng, Taipei Times
Apart from features designed to look like honeymoon suites, the park has also planted trees under which couples can take pictures and profess their love for each other, as well as replicas of giant bells and penthouses, the office said.
The township office is painting the walls of residences with images ranging from little pigs to vibrant flowers, office secretary Wu Sheng-kun (吳盛崑) said, adding that the process had made the community more beautiful.
The paintings on the walls of the tourist office were inspired by the room where the bride rests and applies makeup, and have different settings and colors, allowing visitors to choose the area they like most to take a photo or two, the office said.
If the paintings are well-received by visitors, the office is considering expanding the paintings to other buildings, the office said.
Couples who visited the community by bicycle earlier this week said they were greatly surprised at the decorations the community has put up.
They said that if the community included more paintings inspired by the Beimen area, such as of fishermen or the salt fields, it would give visitors an even better understanding of the social development and industrial history of the place.
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