gateSuan Prung Gate
ประตูสวนปรุง · Pratu Suan Prung
The fifth gate, added later, on the south wall.
Hartmann Linge · CC BY-SA 4.018.7809, 98.9803 · OpenStreetMap · The map
What it is
The second gate in the south wall, added under King Sam Fang Kaen in the 1400s, so that the south wall alone has two. The hospital of the same name is outside it.
The long version
Tradition holds — the dead left the city through this gate, which is why it was cut into the south wall rather than the auspicious north. The road outside it is still the way to the crematorium.
Notes
The 1931 city map spells it ประตูแสนปุง, romanised San Prung on the same sheet, where present usage has สวนปรุง Suan Prung. Both are in circulation and this project does not adjudicate between them.
Connected to
- The moat loop On the ring.
- The 1931 city map Where the older spelling is.
Named here by
- 1300s–1700s — Lanna and Burma Cut in this era.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | คูเมืองเชียงใหม่ / กำแพงเมืองเชียงใหม่ — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated | |
| text.story | tradition |
Sources
- คูเมืองเชียงใหม่ / กำแพงเมืองเชียงใหม่ — Wikipedia (th)
- กำแพงเมืองและคูเมืองเชียงใหม่ — ทะเบียนแหล่งสิ่งแวดล้อมศิลปกรรม — ONEP, Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning
- Chiang Mai City history timeline — City Heritage Centre, Chiang Mai Municipality
- Wikimedia Commons — the map and photograph files, each with its own licence on its file page — Wikimedia Commons
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there