Italian village meets China

China has constructed a copy of an Italian city called Florentia Village. It's a sprawling 14-acre complex of colonnades and piazzas that boasts its own faux Colosseum and Grand Canal with gondolas that glide under a Rialto bridge.

Let's have a look at this 'Little Italy' in China.

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A bridge crosses a canal that flows through the centre of the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing, located on the outskirts of the city of Tianjin, China.

The shopping centre, which covers an area of some 200,000 square metres, was constructed on a former corn field at an estimated cost of $220 million and copies old Italian-style architecture with Florentine arcades, a grand canal, bridges, and a building that resembles a Roman Coliseum.

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A man and a woman walk through a building that resembles a Roman Coliseum at the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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A man takes a photograph of a woman outside a fashion store in the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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Pedestrians walk down an alley that resembles a Florentine-style street towards a building that looks like a Roman Coliseumin the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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A Chinese national flag flies from buildings resembling those found in an Italian town at the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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A security guard drives a small vehicle through a carpark outside the surrounding walls of the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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Two women walk through a building that resembles a Roman Coliseum at the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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An emblem decorates the pavement next to a fountain inside a building that looks like a Roman Coliseum at the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing.

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A Venetian Lion emblem adorns the footpath as pedestrians walk across a bridge over a canal that flows through the centre of the Florentia Village.

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A canal flows through the centre of the Florentia Village.