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Cemetery Of St Michael The Archangel
This cemetery, northeast of Monte Fort, contains tombs and sepulchres that can only be described as baroque ecclesiastical works of art. Near the main entrance is the Chapel of St Michael (Capela de São Miguel; ; - ), a doll-sized, pea-green church with a tiny choir loft and pretty porticoes.
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Guia Fort
This fortress, built in 1638 atop the highest point on the peninsula, was originally designed to defend the border with China. The quaint Chapel of Our Lady of Guia (Capela de Nostra Señora da Guia), built in 1622, was used to sound storm warnings. The 15m-tall Guia Lighthouse (Farol da Guia; 1865) is the oldest lighthouse on the China coast. On clear days you can see Lantau Island from the fort.
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Monte Fort
On a hill and accessible by an escalator just east of the ruins of the Church of St Paul, Monte Fort was built by the Jesuits between 1617 and 1626 as part of the College of the Mother of God. Barracks and storehouses were designed to allow the fort to survive a two-year siege, but the cannons were fired only once: during the aborted attempt by the Dutch to invade Macau in 1622 .
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Old Protestant Cemetery
To the east of the Casa Garden is the final resting place of many early non-Portuguese residents of Macau. As Church law forbade the burial of non-Catholics on hallowed ground, there was nowhere to inter Protestants who died here, and they were often buried clandestinely in the nearby hills. The governor finally allowed the British East India Company to establish the cemetery in 1821. A number of old graves were then transferred to the cemetery, which explains the earlier dates on some of the tombstones.
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