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Old CityWalls, Rua de Sao Paolo

The Ruins of St. Paul’s
Macau
Hongkong & Macau
China

Type: Historical Interest

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Old CityWalls, Rua de Sao Paolo. Just next to the Ruins of St. Paul’s you can see a short stretch of the old Portuguese city wall. The Portuguese constructed a wall around the city in 1569 and, while the project was never completed, it used to circle three-quarters of the city, although little remains today. Using a unique mix of clay, sand, soil, rice straw, crushed rocks and oyster shells (known as chunambo), the mixture was compacted into several layers, which you can still see
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