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香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | #MACAU- Kun Lam Tong- Temple of the Goddess of Mercy… Ecumenical Center

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Before settings out onwards to the Fortaleza do Monte also Senado square… there was one place that was outside the central older neighborhooding sections of Macau square there was one site of interest it’s The Kun Lam Tong-Ecumenical Center in which sits off at 1101 Avenida de Sun Yat-sen In which is located off land on artificial island interconnecting with a sixty meter long causeway bridge… in which the bronze 32 meters tall Kun Lam Tong- Goddess of Mercy statute is only not facing the sea, or harbour.. In which is facing the shoreline.. In which facing the ocean will bring good luck to sailors whom traveling onwards to sea…

Arriving in the morning before setting outwards to the Senado Square walking up to in before lunch is the towards the Causeway  bridge that’s leading up towards the Ecumenical Center, in which the center serves as an educational center with a library also a moderate size convention center to house events in which of various cultures in accumulating them together..

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The Buddhist, Taoist Chinese Painting works inspired me, in how to see the many layers of different tones of painting drawn out with each every layer of brushwork brings out a story within the whole storyline.. As the different tones of colours bring life out from those painted stories on like on textures that helps to date it back on the many Buddhist cave Grottoes that can be found among the Old Silk roads in which during those time many Buddhist cave Grottoes are detailed illustrated with gorgeous carvings with paintings.. in which you could see the various elements of Buddhism and Taoism fusion together in merging many philosophies together..

A gorgeous fine late morning that radiant the – Kun Lam Tong- Temple of the Goddess of Mercy of it’s fifty bronze panels…

The Ecumenical Center, is innovated modern… in which the base of the structure is designed with a white lotus petal inspirational hall in which people can rest while rest within the round hexagon setting arrangement like in the Taoist nature … while observing the illustrations within the round ceiling walls.. With Buddhist also with Taoist inscriptions collections of art works with focusing on Buddha, Lao Tse, and Confucius…   the round walls within the Ecumenical Center walls are designed with harmony as with the them Taoist white black Ying Yang apporachment, in which the focuses on the Eight Trigram seating while observing the “Thought from both from the Occident and the Orient”….

Among the galleries inside the – Kun Lam Tong- Ecumenical Center in which marveling at the construction work on the inside also the outside with the fifty bronze casting paneling that makes up the structure like how the big Buddha is constructed at Lantau island.. The views of its surroundings of Macau Tapa island shore land with impressive adjacent bridge engineering of in between Governddor Norbre de Carvaho Bridge also it other in parallel of Pte, da Amizade in which viewing from the causeway  bridge..

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香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | #MACAU- Fortaleza do Monte Part two – the older protector whom seen it also still see it …

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The Past defending it’s future..

 

As I enter within the walls of its fortifications, as the Fortaleza do Monte was primary in built in between 1617- 1626 on as the walls its fortifications are build fifty two meters high… in which is built on a mountain name Mount Hill.. As the construction begins its original design of the complex was to protect the local inhabitants from Pirates, local bandits in the area patrolled station wise around the fort is watch towers, the fort proved its worth in which holding of any 1622 Dutch incursion in the past..  As the fort was providing in provision in defense for the neighborhood in which later as time progressive, it was later converted in first Governor Residences during 1623 to 1470… Later wards onwards it became a police battalion for two companies 1810 towards 1841… Later onwards  taking on another form of defense, as the defense of as weather observation for Meteorological Department of Portuguese Macau in the year 1966 to 1996… from that point it slowly transition to a Museum of Macau as the relocation of the Observatory was place at Tapa..

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As walking around, in looking at the city landscape onwardly towards the accompany Macau’s island Tapa, in its distance which had the retro looking casino buildings that dates with the 1960’s Las Vegas look but with its character to its own.. In which there’s one that looks Jaded that looks like seven swords adjoining in which is the Grand Lisboa, the Design speaks out retro Las Vegas meet East in which it design by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man in which during its day it was the tallest building 261 meters tall in which now has superseded by it 21st century counterparts as Macau becomes more maturely in its developments…

Fortaleza do Monte have stood the changes through time..

There are several parts in of Fortaleza do Monte, in which one notability outside with the defense walls in which the internal museum contains the relics that have been savage by the Ruins of St. Paul’s  in which some have been discovered within from the after the fire from that time.. Also among the exhibition is the restoration of the persons that was buried within the Crypts that was exposed after the fire as their skeletal remains restored..

the Many Portuguese cast iron cannons have stood its time beyond it’s previous owners..

 

Among the remains there are other relics that associated with the Church also its historical past as a fort, Governor Residences, to its final emplacement from a Meteorological Observatory to a National Maco Museum… As above wise the Fortaleza do Monte-Maco Museum, contains most of the historical elements. In which has a reflecting pond alongside the fort main building……  along with most of its retain features is the door way which open up from within towards the outside as it only has one way in also out.. in with its stairways are  design for two purposes one to carry up or down of those cast steel cannons, on the flat rail paths that helix away from also it munitions.. To the top or bellow confinement as all are ramp like paths that lead internally inward inside the fort……..

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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- The iconic Ruins of St. Paul’s church…….

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“……It is traditionally to throw coins into the top window of the ruins of St. Paul’s  from the stairs, for luck……”

As walking from the Macau’s oldest city Center, the Senado Square in which is located in which interconnecting with districts of Largo do São Domingos at one end and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro……As walking from Senado Square towards the St 16th century Dominic Church in which is design baroque style… With its yellow yoke iconic painted walls, it was time to walk through alleys the streets to R. da Palha, towards the R. da Sao Paulo road….. in which walking through those streets I  begin to see the older Macau character taking shape as transitioning from current to hybrid in between,  from the past as I studied the buildings history as I walk passed by.. as the front stores, with its back alley ways gives a glimpse of Macau past with painted walls painted skin peeling like its sun burnt skin slowly as it reveal its history from within of how the building is conceptually  constructed ..

As walking towards the Ruins of St Paul’s, walking among a busy alleys of R. da Sao Paulo road the alley stores shows the transitioning moments in time in which there are traditional stores remaining with old buildings dated as far back also accommodating with the new alterations that placed in keep it up with the present .. But as I explored more into the building looking at the upper levels show a different story of it’s current to its past inhabitants… exploring in different building within the alley ways sidingly reveals another paragraph as it buildings turns the pages for I  as I  soak in the words of the place..

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Trekking onwards toward a long stretch of that Alley road R. da Sao Paulo, as the street stores transition from its past towards the a modern open community square in the walking distances as the curvature of the street Sao Paulo road begins to reveal slowly as ones walking pace in unveiling view of Saint Paul’s Church……in the wide open spaces.. Its iconic facade of the building that stood the remains also it’s testing of its time…..

 Walking towards the Saint Paul’s Church Facade… I notice it hasn’t changed much from the Black and white postcard like photographs with delicate intricate lacy trim frames that I’ve seen in my childhood with those Matt glossy finishes… Thinking back to those photographs, thinking those noticeable changes would internal modern structural ones as to reinforce it through its defiant testimony of time in tactile colours…

The Ruins off St Paul’s church (大三巴牌坊) design by Charles Spinola, was constructed during the seventh century in the Santo Antonio, which previously there was St. Paul’s College nearby in which the church is dedicated to the Saint Paul Aposite…..  Built during the years of 1602 to 1640, in which taken least thirty eight years to build… In which was design by Jesuits Collegiate, a Catholic Church Collegiate…  looking around the Facade of the building seeing the front remains of the church, in which is the sub-terrain also it partial walls of the church that still remains intactly restorationary……

The façade was conceived during the one day on 26 January 1835 during a massive typhoon onslaught, on setting onto Macau, in which initially secondary the church was destroyed by fire after the typhoon winds collapsed the structural integrity in which primary set a catalyst of events that eventually became the iconic landmark …

Within the fallen ruins of the St. Paul’s church I notice is there are dozen or more Crypts that were uncovered during within the foundations of the building, in which there was entombment of the Christian Chinese Martyrs also the Monastic Clergy… also what was uncovered during the restoration is the architectural plans and layout of the church buildings in which gave the insights of the hidden artifacts secrets that was hidden for quite some centuries time ….

….. Built during the years of 1602 to 1640, in which taken least thirty eight years to build… In which was design by Jesuits Collegiate, a Catholic Church Collegiate

Looking around in the distance within the façade, internally and externally, those historically pavements that I walking on, looking around externally there’s a small temple altar nearby, the Na Tcha Temple, orthough its smaller incomparsion it’s was built in the 1888, the Name of that temple rings a bell in with Na Tcha a childlike deity- Child god of War whom brought an end to a ravaging plague to the region during that time.. Also was defeat by Sun WuKong otherwise known as the monkey king, that’s another story to tell..

Looking around is up the hill is the fortification The Monte Fort, in which this place was once heavily fortified with the Portuguese fort nearby that another…

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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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