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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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