Among places of historical interest that can be mentioned are the remains of the city gate and walls and resort palace built by king wu over 2 , 000 years ago , the drill ground of the strategist sun wuzi , the dyke of lord bai built by the tang poet bai juyi , the ancestral shrine and cemetery of the song statesman fan zhongyan , pagodas such as tiger hill pagoda , auspicious light pagoda , twin pagodas , shangfang pagoda , lingyan temple pagoda and the tallest north temple pagoda , and today s largest song building in the taoist temple of mystery , the tang sculptures in purple gold nunnery and those of the song in baosheng temple , etc . the historical relics dating a thousand years back can all be traced to their record , sites of architectural evidences 从二千多年前吴王建的城门城墙故址馆娃宫遗址孙武子校场遗址到唐白居易建的白公堤宋范仲淹家祖古墓群和范公祠从虎丘塔瑞光塔双塔上方塔灵岩寺塔最高的北寺塔到现存最大的宋建筑玄妙观以及保圣寺唐塑紫金庵宋塑千年史迹在苏州都有史料可查，有遗址可寻，有建筑可佐证。至于明清两朝的史迹为数更为可观。
