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Border Gate (Portas do Cerco) 关闸Guānzhá
Classified heritage · Macau, Macau
- Time needed
- 30 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Macau
- Region
- Macau
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- Classified heritage
About Border Gate (Portas do Cerco)
The Border Gate is a triumphal-arch portico built in 1870–71 at the northern end of the Macau Peninsula, at the site where the Chinese authorities had put up a gate house in 1574. Inscriptions on the arch record events in the site's history. The arch stands in Border Gate Square, which has fountains and planting and blue-tiled side walls carrying a poem by the Portuguese poet Camões.
How to get to Border Gate (Portas do Cerco)
At the northern end of the Macau Peninsula, about 2.6 km north-north-east of Senado Square, with its own bus terminal beneath the square.
Nearby
- Historic Centre of Macau 澳门历史城区 under 10 km
Portuguese tiled squares, baroque churches and Chinese temples, a short walk apart - Tian Tan Buddha & Ngong Ping 天坛大佛与昂坪 40 km
A giant bronze Buddha on Lantau, reached by a 25-minute cable car ride
Also within 20 km: Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park 纪念孙中山市政公园 (under 10 km), Our Lady of Fátima Church 花地玛圣母堂 (under 10 km), Stone with the Coat of Arms of Portugal, Lin Fong Temple 刻有葡国徽号的石块（莲峰庙旁） (under 10 km), Lin Fong Temple 莲峰庙 (under 10 km), Lin Zexu Memorial Museum of Macau 澳门林则徐纪念馆 (under 10 km), Mong-Há Fort 望厦炮台 (under 10 km).
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