St. Paul’s College: The School Behind the Façade
The foundations behind the famous church wall belonged to a college where Jesuits prepared for work in China through language learning and religious study.
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Reading the Layers of the Ruins of St. Paul’s
The surviving façade of the Church of Mater Dei is a carved surface shaped by Chinese and European visual traditions, and the remnant left by the fire of 1835.
Eight beams across the chapel
Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel at Ká-Hó was completed in 1966.
A settlement founded for care
Macau established a Hansen’s disease care institution at Ká-Hó in 1885.
Public parkland in southern Coloane
Seac Pai Van Country Park lies on the western side of Coloane and covers about 198,000 square metres.
A craft learned through materials
Macau’s yards built wooden boats, a demanding craft requiring many tools and a practiced sense of material.
Six yards on Lai Chi Vun
Shipbuilding began at Lai Chi Vun in the 1950s.
A temple dedicated to Tam Kong
Tam Kong is a sea deity with a following along the south China coast and among fishing communities.
A bell that carries a date
Coloane’s Tin Hau Temple preserves a bronze bell dated to the twenty-eighth year of the Qianlong reign: 1763.
A chapel rebuilt in 1928
The site beside Eduardo Marques Square first housed a nursery run by the Canossian Sisters in 1904.
A schoolhouse from about 1911
Coloane Library occupies a building dating to about 1911.
A village drawn at walking scale
Coloane’s old village is made of compact lanes, low buildings and small public spaces close to the waterfront.