Baolun Temple

The small working Buddhist temple on the hill above Ciqikou's main street, the one building in the town older than the shops: its Ming-dynasty main hall, a municipal protected monument since 1983, is one of the oldest surviving timber structures in central Chongqing (the Donghua Temple scripture hall on Kaixuan Road is the other one), and the legend that the deposed Jianwen Emperor hid here in the 1400s gave the town its old name, 'Longyin' — 'hidden dragon'. Free, open 7:30-18:00 according to every platform we can find (the temple publishes nothing online), with the stone steps up from the street, a ginkgo courtyard that turns yellow in late November, a viewing terrace over the Jialing and a queue at the free stamp table. Ten minutes; the best ten minutes in Ciqikou on a crowded day.