Datang Everbright City is located at the foot of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Yanta district in Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi province.

Tourists flock to the streets for music shows and colored lanterns at Datang Everbright City. [Photo/Xinhua]

It is one of the 11 in the first batch of pilot pedestrian streets, or pedestrian malls approved by the Ministry of Commerce. It covers an area of 650,000 square meters and has an annual passenger flow of over 10 million passengers.

People visit Datang Everbright City in Xi'an. [Photo by Zhang Bowen/Xinhua]

It also has the largest sculpture and landscape block in Asia and the first city block in the country to adopt payments by scanning faces.

Taking the Tang Dynasty (618-907) culture as its design theme, the pedestrian street strives to create a one-stop consumer paradise that integrates shopping, dining, entertainment, leisure, tourism and business.

The shouting springs experience is available for visitors. [Photo/people.com.cn]

Based on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it starts from Xuanzang Square in the north, Tang City Wall Heritage Park in the south, Ci’en East Road in the east and Ci'en West Road in the west.

It runs through the three themed squares -- Xuanzang Square, Zhenguan Cultural Square and Kaiyuan Celebration Square. It has six imitation Tang blocks and four cultural buildings --Xi'an Concert Hall, Xi'an Grand Theater, Qujiang Movie City and Shaanxi Artists Gallery.

Open hours: all day

Ticket price: free