Son Tay – the land located in the center of the land of Xu Doai is famous for its historical relics, landscapes, convergence of great endogenous strength to become a green, civilized and safe city. Referring to Son Tay town is to mention the place of birth of excellent children, highlighting the name of the homeland and the country as Bo Cai Dai Vuong Phung Hung; Ngo Quyen; Tham hoa Giang Van Minh – an excellent diplomat, talented writer; famous celebrity Phan Ke Toai… Son Tay town is also a place converging the Xu Doai culture with relics of historical and cultural value such as The Duong Lam ancient village is famous for its hundreds of years old houses, built of laterite bearing many traces of ancient Vietnamese village in the Red River delta. Son Tay ancient citadel built in 1822 is a unique laterite citadel in Vietnam. Phung Hung Temple and Ngo Quyen mausoleum are a testament to the land of the spirit and masterpiece – the only place “a hamlet of two kings”… This land is also famous for its charming beauty. Coming to Son Tay town, visitors can combine visiting cultural and historical relics with relaxation at eco-tourism areas in the area. Here, Dong Mo lake still retains the wild features including many large and small islands. Especially, Dong Mo golf course is the first international standard in the Northern region, is one of the golf courses with the most beautiful natural landscape in Southeast Asia. Also, the Vietnam national Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism is a place to recreate typical village structures to preserve, develop and introduce traditional cultural values of the 54 Vietnamese ethnic community to visitors at home and abroad… Son Tay town becomes an important tourist destination in the capital.
The Duong Lam ancient village has many traces of the old Vietnamese village in the Red River delta.
To become a green, civilized and safe city, Son Tay town focuses on building an urban civilization, creating a beautiful and friendly image to welcome visitors. Over the past years, the Party committees, authorities and townspeople have paid attention to and invested in developing a green, clean, beautiful urban area which attaches importance to attracting investors to implement projects. The town promotes urban embellishment, builds synchronous infrastructure, enhances the planning work towards modernization, especially key projects, and frame traffic infrastructure. The town focuses on renovating and upgrading the public lighting system to ensure adequate supply and safety for production and life. The town is interested in investing in the system of parks, flower gardens, trees in wards and communes: Le Loi, Ngo Quyen, Phu Thinh, Vien Son, Son Dong … to create conditions for people to have a place for entertainment and community activities.
In order to create a green, clean and beautiful landscape, the town focuses on thoroughly handling improper billboards, business establishments and traders encroach on road traffic safety corridors, sidewalks, and Street; dismantling canopies and scaled roofs, which cause loss of urban beauty, strictly handle violations of urban civilization regulations. The town maintains good environmental sanitation. Communes and wards all do a good job of propaganda, calling on each person to do from the smallest things such as picking up trash, taking out trash on time, at the right place; regularly cleaning, collecting garbage, cleaning traffic corridors, taking care of flowers and trees on roads…; maintain effective environmental sanitation in residential areas, maintaining self-governing routes “Green – clean – beautiful”, maintaining activities of “Voluntary Saturday”, “Green Sunday”; well organized the contest “Keeping roads, green, clean, beautiful streets” … Each citizen is excited because they are contributing to making their living environment more fresh, clean, and beautiful from home to alley, building Son Tay town with bright, green, clean and beautiful space.
The HUD-Son Tay urban area project creates a new urban look for the land of Doai.
In the goal of fast and sustainable economic development, focusing on tourism and service development to 2025, with a vision to 2030, Son Tay town determines the development of services, ecotourism and spiritual culture has become a spearhead economic branch. In the coming years, the town will strengthen tourism promotion; coordinate with travel and tourist units to survey, study and build qualified tourist routes and destinations; to develop various types of cultural tourism, ecotourism and relaxation tourism, thereby to exploit and promote effectively the potential value of the ancient village cultural and historical relics population in Duong Lam, Va Temple, Son Tay Ancient Citadel, Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Tourism … The town will also focus on attracting resources to build synchronous tourism infrastructure; encourage businesses and business households to invest in building hotels, restaurants, high-quality souvenir products; strongly develop various types of services, with priority given to the development of high-quality entertainment and accommodation service establishments … completing planning projects, investment in conservation and development of ancient villages in Duong Lam; striving to attract 2 million tourists to tourist spots in the town by 2025, making Son Tay town become the ideal satellite city of the capital.
Tuan Anh