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Historic Center of Macau

Written by ivana Updated Jun. 18, 2021

Historic Center of Macau is the old town historic district which composes of the 22 buildings in the Macau Peninsula and the eight adjacent former lands.

In the 29th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting on July 15, 2005, the Historic Centre of Macao unanimously adopted by the 21 member states and then formally included in the World Heritage List, which is the 31st world heritage of China.

Historic Centre of Macao saves the history essence for four hundred years cultural exchange between Chinese and Western of Macau. It is an important witness to the disseminated history of the Western religious culture in China and the Far East. It is the oldest, the largest, the most complete saved, and the largest concentration of buildings which coexisting styles of Eastern and Western in China.

It includes the oldest Church and Monasteries’ Ruins, the oldest Christian Cemeteries, the oldest Western-style Battery Path Buildings, the First Western-style Theater, the First Modern Lighthouse, and the first Western Universities.

As the European countries’ first territory in East Asia, the city witnessed Macao's four hundred years’ history of Chinese culture and Western culture’ exchange, pluralistic coexistence. Most of the buildings in the city have the characteristics of both Chinese and Western for the communion of Chinese and Western cultures.

In 400 years of its history, the Chinese people work together with the Portuguese in the Historic Center of Macau to create different living communities. The communities’ atmosphere of warmth, honest,y and inclusion, which fermentation together by Chinese and Portuguese peoples, is the most unique and most valuable place in Macao.

Attractions in the Historic Center of Macau

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