Coloane Village
Coloane Village still keeps some of the original ambience of the previous Inner Harbor of Macau peninsula.
Coloane Island was inhabit by fisherman in the western beach were a village was settle and by pirates in the groves and small beaches in the East part. Farming existed in the inner valley.
The Portuguese presence here was almost inexistent in the architecture until 1920’s when government buildings like barracks, markets, libraries, police station, school and health center were built.
A church was build in 1928 and the neoclassic arcade in mid 90’s
The public life developed around the two main public squares, one in from of the Church, the other in front of the police station and market.
Public well were also places were the women met when washing the laundry and collecting water for cooking.
Shipyards and sea houses on stilts built over sallow water in the Lai Chi Van area. A stone quarry was for many years the main supplier of cement to Macau.
The Rua dos Negociantes (merchants street) is the last one where the traditional trade is last surviving from ancient times to recent pressure for “redevelopment”, erasing a unique heritage.