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Located at Marco Polo Square, Hebei District, Italian Style Street is a tourist resort with Italian style in Tianjin city. It was formerly known as the only concession outside of Italy, and now is a unique large Italian-style building in Asia.

It covers the area from Coast area to the Victory Road. Across the river from Italian Town lie the Ancient Culture Street, Tianjin Financial Road, Peace Shopping and Pedestrian Street, Tianjin Municipal Government and Little White CBD. Owning the unique location, the Style Street is merged with different cultures. Here you can find the many former residences of celebrities', chic bars, western art deco, international restaurants, etc. Among those buildings, the most famous are First Workers' Cultural Palace, Residence of Feng Guozhang, Liang Qichao's former residence Yinbin Room, Residence of Hua Shikui, Residence of Cao Yu and Italian Military Camp. Although the Italian Town is named after a street, actually it is a small town.

The center of Italian Style Street is the Macro Polo Plaza. The well preserved fences and other ancient buildings make the town full of Italian aroma. The layout of the street is shaped like a chessboard. Both sides of the street are decorated with lamp lights and green trees. Like a well-cut suit discovered hanging in the back of a wardrobe, Tianjin's newly spruced up Italian Style District aims to dress up the city as a cosmopolitan and elegant destination. The Freedom Path is the only pedestrian street in the Italian Style Street and most of the buildings are restaurants and bars which attract many tourists. Here one can not only taste the real pizza, Italian pasta and other Italian aperitifs, but he can also enjoy the Italian performances and other Italian clothes and handicraft exhibitions. One can come here to dine at Italian and French restaurants and daydream about being in Europe. The 24-hour bars, cafes, cinemas, art museum and restaurants make it attractive to tourists from all over the world. Also, this street is quite charming at night, with its European-style architecture and warm white lights.

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