Different from the bustling atmosphere in the town, Quy Hoa Phong Village still retains its idyllic and nostalgic beauty.
Less than 15 minutes from the center of Quy Nhon city by motorbike, Quy Hoa Phong Village (also called Quy Hoa valley- in Ghenh Rang Ward, Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh province) was originally a small fishing village separated from the bustling atmosphere in town.
Few people know that those who used to live in this land as well as people from the outside used to want it to sink into oblivion. However, now Quy Hoa wind village becomes a peaceful and poetic tourist destination, attracting tourists from near and far.
Quy Hoa Valley has an idyllic look with a romantic natural landscape, combined with works of leprosy hospitals and patient houses by famous French architects, creating a very architectural complex. unique.
According to the documents, more than 90 years ago (1929), when the French priest named Paul Maheu (1869 – 1931) discovered the rare tranquility of this land and he decided to build a treatment for leprosy patients named Laproserie de Quy Hoa Hospital.
In 1932, the hospital was rebuilt by Charles Antoine and Ozithe, with a house for the patient to come here for long-term treatment.
In addition to the hospital, the Quy Hoa campus also has a church, nuns’ residence and more than 200 houses for leprosy patients.
The houses are designed with spacious ground-floor, tile-paved paths, between houses without barriers. Each house has a small garden with trees and flowers. The path leading through the houses is covered with trees and flowers, in the middle of each area there is a small campus with a few statues of famous medicine, the statue of Our Lady …
This season, coming to Quy Hoa, in addition to the simple and poetic beauty, visitors are also held back by rows of bougainvillea flowers that are a few decades old, which are blooming brilliantly.
In particular, coming to Quy Hoa Phong Village, visitors can also come to the Han Mac Tu memorial room – a talented but fateful poet.
In 1936, poet Han Mac Tu contracted leprosy and went to live in the last years of his life in Quy Hoa to treat the disease and write poetry.
In pain, loneliness and sadness, Han Mac Tu poems bearing the imprint of unique talent were born in this picturesque land such as “Crazy Poetry”, “Fragrance”, “Bitter Honey. “,” Crazy blood and mad soul “ … because of that, Quy Hoa is more known.
Those who have ever been to Quy Hoa will feel the peaceful life under each house and the gentle smile of the people in the village.
