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28/11/12

The artistic and cultural works

* Nguyen Thi Dinh Memorial Park in Luong Hoa village, Giong Trom district, was the place where she was born. She was an elite woman, the first female general, an outstanding leader who devoted all her life to the liberation of the country.
* Hero Phan Van Tri Memorial Temple, located in Thanh Phu Dong village, Giong Trom district, Ben Tre province is 22km far away from Ben Tre city.
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*  Lieutenant General Dong Van Cong Memorial, located in Tan Hao village, Giong Trom district, was the place where he was born. He was an elite man, a hero of resistance against foreign invaders, an outstanding military leader who contributed his life to the liberation of the country, a hero of the armed forces.
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* Tan Ke Shrine located at My Chanh village, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province is 35km far away from Ben Tre city.
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* Military governor Phan Cong Monument
Located in An Hiep village, Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province is 38km far away from Ben Tre city. Heaven and earth are yin and yang, man has virtue; man’s duty is first piety and loyalty; general’s morality first has humanity - mind – bravery;
“Up to now, change is common,
In sum, piety and loyalty are the best!”
Military governor and general Phan Ngoc Tong, born in An Binh Duong village, Bao An district, was well-educated, kept on studying, and once taught people in Ben Tre town.
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* Ben Tre Museum is located at 146 Hung Vuong Street, Ward 3, Ben Tre city. The museum was built in the French style in the early twentieth century, once a Palace by reference (French) and Province Chief Palace (the U.S.), with a 2 ha campus. Here they displayed artifacts, traditional historical documents of Ben Tre Revolution. The museum collects and displays historical artifacts and becomes important attractions for tourism of Ben Tre.
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* Dong Khoi Monument, is in Ward 4, Ben Tre city. This is a cultural work which was built and inaugurated on 17/01/1995.
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* Ton Co Tu Society in Quoi Son village, Chau Thanh district is the province's oldest temple, built from the time of Canh Hung (1740) and Monk Long Thien was the abbot. It was built 30 years after the earliest Buddhist temple built in the South.
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* Catholicism appeared in Ben Tre in the middle of the eighteenth century. Cai Bong Church is the oldest in Ben Tre and the largest and most beautiful ones are Ben Tre City Church in Ward 3 and Cai Mon Church in Cho Lach district.
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* Caodaism in Ben Tre includes four sects: the original, Tay Ninh, Tien Thien and Minh Chon Ly. Ben Tre has two holy sees: the Caodai Holy See in Ward 6, Ben Tre city and Tien Thien Holy See in Tien Thuy village, Chau Thanh district. This is the central government of Caodaism and in its great festivals, Caodaism believers from everywhere gather here.
The Caodai Holy See in Ward 6, Ben Tre city

20/11/12

The national cultural historic relics

(1)* Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s historic grave and monument: The relic is in hamlet 3, An Duc village, Ba Tri district, which is 38km far away from Ben Tre city. Poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu was not born in Ben Tre, but he chose to live here, to open schools to teach, to write and prepare prescription for people and lived with poetry to the end of life. The relic includes a temple, a memorial and a tomb. The tomb contains his grave, his wife La Thi Dien’s grave, and the grave of his daughter, Mrs. Suong Nguyet Anh (the female newspaper editor, "Females in general").

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(2)* Dong Khoi historic relic in Dinh Thuy village, Mo Cay district is the place where the first shot of the Dong Khoi Movement in 1960 was outbroken, uprising in the province and then spread to the South.
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(3)* Tuyen Linh Pagoda, a historic relic in Minh Duc village, Mo Cay Nam district, was built in 1861. Great-grandfather Vice-doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac - President Ho Chi Minh’s father - once lived here, teaching, taking people’s pulse, writing and preparing prescription for people in the region. It was the basis of protecting, caring staff of the revolution against France and America in war years.
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(4)* The North - South end of the bridge to receive weapons, a historic relic: It includes such relics as Khau Bang Mouth of a river, Bung Islet, Loi Islet and Lon Islet. They are ranges of isles adjoining the East Sea in Thanh Phong village, Thanh Phu district. In the past, this place was the precarious harbor of the special shippings to provide weapons from North to South for battlefields in Ben Tre and provinces in Quarter 8. In 1946, at Khau Bang Mouth of a river, a small boat sailed for the first time, crossing the sea to the North to report to Uncle Ho, the Party Central Committee and asked the Committee to supply weapons, headed by Ms. Nguyen Thi Dinh. Now this place is deploying the investment for Cemetery Park project, Ho Chi Minh Street in the sea, with a total investment of the project is 1,500 USD billion, and this is the attractive place for a visit to the coast when the project is completed.
(5)* Y4 Revolution Base historic relic: The relic is located in 2 villages Tan Phu Tay and Thanh An, Mo Cay Bac district. It is a revolutionary base of the Saigon - Gia Dinh District Commission from 7/1969 to 10/1970 and from here, guidance for big battles on the enemy's head office in Saigon - Gia Dinh. The relic is being invested into restoration to become tourist attractions.
(6)* Great-grandfather Nguyen Van Cung's house historic relic and Cay da doi T-junction. This is the place of the establishment of the first Communist Party Branch in Ben Tre. At the end of 4/1930, the first communist party in the province of Ben Tre was established at Mr. Nguyen Van Cung’s house, comprising 10 members.
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(7)* Military leader Nguyen Ngoc Thang temple and tomb historic relic: The relic is in My Thanh village, Giong Trom district. He served as a military leader in the army under the reign of Thieu Tri in 1848. On 27/6/1866 he was shot, killed in a fierce battle with the French. Emperor Tu Duc ordained him with clothes and a sword. Since 1984, local people have taken his ancestral tablet into the communal house in My Thanh village to worship as a god who devoted to the fight against invaders.
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(8)* Mr. Nguyen Van Trac’s house historic relic: This is the place where Mr. Le Duan worked from 11/1955 until 3/1956 in Hung Le village, Giong Trom district to direct the revolutionary movement in the South.
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(9)* The massacre monument in Cau Hoa, Phong Nam village, Giong Trom district: On 10/01/1947, two legion platoons commanded by Leon Leroy, a hybrid lieutenant commander, mopped it up because he suspected that Viet Minh was staying at Cau Hoa hamlet. After failing to find Viet Minh, they turned the fire on innocent people, killing 286 people, mostly women, children and old people, burned more than 100 houses. This is the biggest and most brutal massacre in Ben Tre during the war against France.
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(10)* Great-grandfather Vo Truong Toan’s tomb historic relic: Vo Truong Toan was from Binh Duong, Gia Dinh province. He was a smart learned man. He died on 27/07/1792. After three southeastern provinces fell to French invaders, some intellectuals in Gia Dinh did not want their beloved teacher left the bones in the place occupied by invaders, so they relocated his remains to Bao Thanh village, Ba Tri district.
(11)* Phu Le communal house is in Phu Khuong hamlet, Phu Le village, Ba Tri district. The house is 40 km far away from Ben Tre city, 4km far away from Ba Tri town. It was built in the 7th year of Minh Mang (1826). It is the largest and most beautiful among coastal villages of Ben Tre.
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(12)* Binh Hoa communal house is in Binh Hoa village, Giong Trom district. This old house is 200 years old. Decoration inside and outside the home combines elements of royal art and folk religion art. Today there are more than 100 things in nature of sharp delicate wood carving, including horizontal board pictures, pairs of parallel sentences which correspond to each other, etc. are stored.
(13)* Tan Thach communal house is in Tan Thach village, Chau Thanh district. Tan Thach house that has a Chinese-transcribed-Vietnamese name as Thach Ho Dinh was built in the years 1843-1844. The house has a Tam-shaped structure, iron wood pillars, a Chinese-tiled floor, surrounded around by walls. Currently the house still keeps many objects which are very valuable in art and history: 6 decrees (4 by King Thieu Tri and 2 by King Tu Duc), 4 brass bamboo-eyed censers, 7 brass sandalwood censers, candlesticks; glass lamps, etc. Also, inside the house was decorated with the horizontal board pictures, etc. and finely carved, painted and gilded splendorously.
(14)* The ancient monument Huynh Phu (Huong Liem) and tombs: Located in Dai Dien village, Thanh Phu district, Ben Tre province, the house was built in 1884 with an area of 500m2, rectangular style, three-door, two attics of three and two tureens. The house was decorated with skillfully carved patterns sculpted by hand from wood by skilled artists in Central and Northern parts at that time. This is a unique architecture, whose interior that is protected remains almost intact, and Ministry of Culture and Tourism Information recognized it as a national monument on 14/4/2011.