Travel to Macau, Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region of China Macao or abbreviated to Macau is a small area on the southern coast of China.
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Macau is located at 70 km southwest of Hong Kong and 145 kilometers from Guangzhou. He is the oldest European colony in China, since the 16th century. Portugal government handed over the sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, and Macau is now a Special Administrative Region of China.

Macau residents mostly speak in Cantonese, in addition, Mandarin, Portuguese and English languages are also used.

Macau is the only city in China that are allowed to have casinos. Casinos in Macau is a tourist attraction that invites the arrival of the gambler from Hong Kong and other Asian countries.

Like silk split seven, so the line between dreams of heaven and hell appear in Macau persuasion. Although a lot of churches, the Europeans know Macau as 'Las Vegas in the east', while the Americans gave the nickname 'Monaco of the east'. Which is more appropriate?

An area of 6 miles square, has a population of half a million people in the southeastern corner of mainland China is an ancient city, built in XV century. Macau has more churches than the Vatican, where Pope is at once the Bishop of Rome, enthroned. In the past, the power of the Bishop of Macau is very broad. The entire mission area of Goa on the West Coast of India to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia and north to Nagasaki, Japan.

However, apart from near the 'paradise' thanks to the legacy of the religious atmosphere as above, the Europeans know Macau as 'Las Vegas of the east' while the Americans gave the nickname 'Monaco of the east'.
Legalized gambling, annually invites more than four million visitors. Most (75 percent) residents of Hong Kong, the rest gambler from Singapore and Indonesia, which prohibited gambling in their country.

First here are stored the relics (relics), St. Franciscus Xaverius. Relics are now transferred to St. Francis Chapel in Coloane Island, in front of the harbor. Although small, building a beautiful chapel there because once the rest of the ruins of the former fire at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

Placemark Macau is strategically make this city has an important position. When the Emperor of China in the early eighteenth century forbade foreign merchants come, the ships of Europe must stop in Macau, as the only entrance to mainland China. Of course, the monopoly status of the spur local economic growth.