Hoi An Ancient Town

Hoi An Ancient Town is an ancient town located downstream of the Thu Bon River, in the coastal plain of Quang Nam province, Vietnam, about 30 km south of Da Nang city. Thanks to favorable geographical and climatic factors, Hoi An was once a busy international trading port, a meeting place for Japanese, Chinese and Western merchant ships during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Before this period, there were also vestiges of the Cham Pa trading port, often mentioned along with the Silk Road on the sea. In the 19th century, because waterway traffic here was no longer convenient, the port town of Hoi An gradually declined, giving way to Da Nang, which was being built by the French at that time. Hoi An was fortunate not to be devastated in two wars and avoid the massive urbanization process of the late 20th century. Starting in the 1980s,
The ancient town of Hoi An today is a special example of a traditional port town in Southeast Asia that is preserved intact and thoughtfully.