Camoes Garden

Camoes Garden in Macau is historic among parks and gardens in Macau. Located atop a hill, this most prolific of the park and gardens of Macau offer a true picture of the cultural heterogeneity of Macau. Built in the middle of the 18th century this mountainous, heavily forested garden was once a part of the residence of the Chairman of the British East India Company.

Camoes Garden in Macau is also known as the Casa Garden. Like other parks and gardens in Macau, it is a synthesis of British, Portuguese and Chinese garden art. The present attractions inside the Camoes Garden include an art gallery and an Old Protestant Cemetery. The garden in Macau is filled with walkways, blossoming trees, and old tombstones marking the graves of traders, missionaries and many others from foreign lands who accepted Macau as their favored abode.

Camoes Garden in Macau houses bust of Portugal's national poet, Luís de Camões built by the colonial rulers. This bronze statue was installed in 1886. Behind the sculpture, walkways lead up to a woody hill with a typical Chinese pavilion and marble tables and stools. The local residents can be seen playing Chinese chess on these tables. In front of the bust there is a spacious garden, with benches dappled by banyan trees. You can see people outing with their caged birds or doing morning tai chi exercises on a visit to Camoes Garden in Macau. A fountain at the doorway of the garden contains a bronze monument entitled "Embrace". It symbolizes the centuries' old amity between Portugal and China.

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