Duolun Road, Witnessing the History of Shanghai

Duolun Road is a famous Chinese historic cultural street which is located onthe west side of North Sichuan Beilu in the Hongkou District of Shanghai. It is south of Lu Xun Park and the new Hongkou Football stadium, with its back to the Inner Ring Road and the Shanghai Metro Line. Duolun Road has some of the Shanghai's best examples of European villas and mansions as well as old Shanghai-style buildings.The history of Duolun Road covers more than 100 years, crossing the 19th, 20th and the 21st centuries. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Duolun Road prospered gradually. During the first 20 to 30 years of the 20th century, a number of great Chinese literature masters were beginning to move into Duolun Road one after another. In the 1930s,Duolun Road flourished as 'the famous and major district of modern Chinese literature'.

多伦路邻近鲁迅公园，原名窦乐安路，是一条长五百多米的小路，呈'L'型。这条小街曲折幽静，两边随处可见墙面斑驳的老式居民楼，以及红砖或青砖的复古小洋楼，街边立着各种人物雕塑，很适合来这里拍拍照、散散步。多伦路看上去与其它的上海老街无异，但在20世纪二、三十年代，这条街上居住着鲁迅、茅盾、郭沫若等众多文化名人，如今这里有不少艺术馆和收藏馆，走在这里可以感受到浓郁的文化气息。

从'L'型的尾巴步入这条文化街，最先看到的是多伦现代美术馆，再往前有座基督教教堂，是当年住过不少外籍人士和留学归来的新派人士的鸿德堂。继续向前，可见一家旧书店隔壁是栋黄色外墙的新式洋房，这里曾为日本海军武官住所。

多伦路上还有坐落着许多小资情调的咖啡馆和小型的民间收藏馆，比如筷子博物馆（多伦路191号）、南京钟博物馆（多伦路193号）、文风奇石藏馆（多伦路189号），其它还有藏书票馆、集报馆、古陶瓷收藏馆、源宝楼等，另外能看到上海文物商店文物艺术品展示厅。

逛完多伦路，还可以接着逛另一条特色小路----甜爱路，多伦路北端沿四川北路往东走150米即到。