开平市现存碉楼1456座,堪称世界上最大的碉楼“博物馆”。这些碉楼,最低的有三四层楼高。最高的有八九层楼高,多为单家独座,也有两座连在一起的。在碉楼较为集中的塘口、赤坎两镇,每条村庄,少则一座,多则五六座。开平市不但现存碉楼多,而且款式繁多,有中国传统式的,有中西合璧的,有古罗马式的,有欧洲式的,有十六世纪英国式的,有德国式的,有别墅式的,有庭院式的,有教堂式的,比较全面地融汇了世界各国碉楼(堡)建筑的精华。 The existing towers in Kaiping City, 1,456, called the world’s largest towers “museum.” These towers, the lowest three or four floors high. The highest eighty-nine floors, mostly single-seat alone, there are two linked together. In the towers are more concentrated Tongkou, Chikan two towns, each village, as little as one, as many as fifty-six. Kaiping City, not only the existing towers and more, and many styles, traditional Chinese, Chinese and Western, ancient Rome, European-style, sixteenth Century British, German, villa-style , A courtyard-style, church-style, more comprehensive blend of the world towers (Fort) the essence of the building.