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香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | #MACAU- Fortaleza do Monte Part one – the older Macau landscape….

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As a walkable adjacent to hill wise to the Ruins of St. Paul’s is the hill side Portuguese  fortification of, – Fortaleza do Monte in which is adjacent to only fifty meters away.. in which walking the historically steps of Mount Hill..  In which those steps aside has old as the Ruins of St. Paul Church, in which you have to be respectable in this area as you walk up wards in beginning of the steps, is also an extension graveyard crypt of the Church… also the fort provides a protection of the St. Paul’s Church below..

Walking up among those historical stone stairs in which leads up towards a modern escalator, in which midway leading towards modern visitor center in which show case along the way the historical significant of place.. In which in the center is the Maco Museum, as below the stair ways there’s a small market square space in which selling souvenirs….

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As walking onwards outside of the Fortaleza do Monte, I could see the all-encompassing view of layers of Macau city neighborhood landscape… as its history unfolds with all the cannons gunnery emplacements readiness in defending the fort also the Church of Saint Paul’s below, tactically placed to with one of its Alarming bells to signal the fort….. Looking around in the fort the main fortifications seeming the fort operations seeming it covers all sides of protecting the township below…

as looking into the distance Macau skyline transition from older traditionally to new with a crystal skyline towers..

Looking in the distance is Mainland China, across the Harbour one of heaviest patrol Harbors in the world with constant patrol boats patrolling in between sides of Macau –SAR each Border patrolling on their partaking…  as walking to one placement of the cannons looking at the older casinos of Macau, with that 1950’s retro last Vegas look… in that area where its modernized with wider roads, than the older Macau road in which was designated for horses carriages in those days, now those roads are now replaced with scooters with smaller cars to get around in with alley way streets in which you have to drive one way in which you’ll have to know the street outlining pretty well in which Google maps helps..

Looking in the distance with the Harbour channel in view this part of the city is defending within the capable outline of the cannon emplacements especially from the Harbour in those days still the Harbour also the river way…..

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香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | #MACAU-Senado Square – still an evolving ever changing place of meetings

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As driving away from the Church of Lady of Penha in São Lourenço Macau, with my tour guide, in which the next stop is the old City town square in which is Sendo Square or known as Senate Square, in which is quite iconic due to the beach wave paved tile square…… In which back in during 16th to 18th century the town square it was a major town meeting place of the people of Macau, for Chinese also the Portuguese… The Square was named after Leal Sendo – Loyal Senate in translation from Portuguese… in which the various parts of the senate was based on the collective of Parishes as I was told..

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The centric location of the square is the centuries old buildings in connects to various parts of the triangularly as the area goes in which its centuries old vitalized  neighborhood district joins with the other districts of Largo do São Domingos at one end and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro…… as it was a center ground as a meeting place, also it’s a place of commerce in which the shopping has evolved from its traditional old school  to more now more of mainstream shopping local to  international brands that have taken over the last few decades slowly while still retaining its original character of how it was long ago as I walked towards the street endings in which I could sense it’s retracing its history back building by building, layer by layer there are still the old school stores that are around as exploring  the architecture nature of the Senado has a lot of Italian, Vienna, Spanish, Portuguese influences collectively with a mixture of Chinese influences in which I could see in culinary that I’ve been for lunch in a Portuguese restaurant call Dom Galo restaurant in which there are two one at Calçada do Tronco Velho, n 10,  the other that I ate in at Av. Sir Anders Ljungstedt, n 36 G/F, AF-AG…… as I tasted  each dish that I’ve ordered,  I could see how those influences are brought  within Macau’s  culinary  dishes together in fusion within all those cultures that history residing in Macau also in relation to its layered by layer architecture..

as Macau grows so does its evolutionary architecture in which is heavily influence by it’s Portuguese past..

As walking around the Sendo Square, I  was how amazed that how vibrate the colours are around the place, with sunny yolk yellows, white Portuguese walls, also how clean the streets are even the side streets shopping alleys are also clean aswell.. As walking on those white and black tile pavements streets. In which the those streets with white tiles pavements in which line up to various streets to in out of the Sendo Square is also the linking tight alleys streets that leads up to the to another iconic place in Macau.. The weather battered harden 17th century church of St. Paul in Santo António in which is another Macau’s center square…

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香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | #MACAU- The 15th century built A-Ma Temple the very temple that Gave Macau its name.. !

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My next location after finding a good tour guide from is Agencia De Viagens.- Seng Wang Limitada..   is going into the Portuguese-Macau center square in which after traveling from the Macau Harbour Terminal, in which touring around the streets, the older streets in which those days before cars, known the four wheel automobile in which.. Horses, carts, horses carriages….. as travelling, touring around in a Mobile Person Vehicle… in a brown Toyota vehicle..  The tour guide driver tells the story of the street layout, in which there are tight enough for small street cars, scooters, are very popular to get around the old streets of Macau, as I notice more scooters around in Macau than in Hong Kong patience driving behind them as we passed one of the clinics that the Founder of the Republic Doctor Sun Yet Sen work in as he prepared for laying the foundations of the Republic precursory that year 1911….

As driving pass by the clinic in which, contained various medical utensils that he used during that time, in treating his patience as seen through the museum, in the nearby small hospital that’s contain his statue within the clinics courtyard…..

As you can see the secondary door way that leading up to the other pavilion temples in which is dedicated to deities, immortals great sages, also it’s dedicated to Goddess of Mercy -Guanyin….

My next stop is the 15th century A-Ma Temple in which is locatingly in Barra Square, very near towards nearby the Maritime Museum.. In which is built in 1488 AD, in which is dedicated in to the sea Goddess, Mazu, located in Sao Louurenco, in which is which is one of Macau’s oldest temples in the Special administrative Region..  Its first western depiction is once illustrated by a English artist architect- Thomas Allom……..   in which the temple is located on the doorstep on once was a shoreline.. now that doorstep have located further out into reclaim land that once berth its native to colonially sailing ships..

When you think of  region of Macau  in which the given  inspired name for the region is inspired from the,  The A- Ma Temple, as Portuguese Sailors landed on the Peninsula, in which that name is  of the Temple of the Pavilion of the Mother..

one of the organically temples in which it is a home to an immortal whom lives within the confines of that rock..

Entering towards the Main Gate of the Temple is like stepping back in time as far back towards 1488, in which, stepping back in time where you can see, feel, smell,  the acumination of all that as I walked through the temple main gates into various ones that walking beforehand you can feel see ancient paint works still back then still tells the stories of its time as the trees that grow within the various courtyards in between Gate Pavilion, the Memorial Arch, prayer Hall,  Hall of the Benevolence, in which is the oldest section of the Temple as it’s is a Taoist- Confucius Temple in which the only Buddhist component is the Hall Of Guanyin or known as the Goddess of Mercy…….. also it pays to donate some coinage as a token for the up keep, also that upkeep is that allows you burn incense..

One way of seeing how old the temple is through its design architectural construction, also how its constructed, in which this case of A-Ma Temple- Macau, orthough the inspirational design is Ming Dynasty based in which the early Qing Dynasty inspire adopted as you see the designs are translated into other temples of that era in Hong Kong, Cheung Chau to from the Canton Province extending all the way towards Nanking and Beijing where in the Ming Dynasty the designs are more elaborately detail in sense you can see that in time period of women clothing Chinese HanFu  dress from that era also the men aswell……

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