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Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, Ruins of Saint Paul's, Grand Lisboa and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Macao and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 5 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Fixed link consisting of tunnel and multiple bridges
Often shortened to HZMB, a bridge–tunnel system 55-kilometre (34 mi) long: three cable-stayed bridges, a tunnel under the sea and four artificial islands. No sea crossing on Earth is longer, and neither is any open-sea fixed link.
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0
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World Heritage
Remnants of 17th-century church in Macau
All that is left of a Catholic religious complex from the 17th century in Santo António, Macau, which was built as St. Paul's College together with the Church of St. Paul, or “Mater Dei”, a Portuguese church of that century consecrated to Saint Paul the Apostle.
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hotel in Macau, China
A hotel of 47 floors, 261-metre-tall (856 ft), in Sé, Macau, owned and run by Sociedade de Jogos de Macau. The Hong Kong architects Ng Chun Man and Dennis Lau designed it, with interiors by Khuan Chew, Design Principal of KCA International.
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Historic temple in São Lourenço, Macau
A temple in São Lourenço, Macau, China, to Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea. Built in 1488, it is one of Macau's oldest temples and is thought to have given the settlement its name.
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Observation tower in Macau
Properly the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center, a tower in Sé, Macau, measuring 338 m (1,109 ft) from the ground to its highest point.
Photo: Yumeto, CC BY-SA 4.0
Luxury resort on the Cotai Strip in Macau
A resort with a hotel and casino in Macau, China, belonging to the American company Las Vegas Sands. Its 39-storey building on the Cotai Strip offers 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m²) of floor area, and was modelled on its sister resort, The Venetian Las Vegas.
Photo: Jimmy Yao (vixyao) on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
World Heritage
Church in Macau, China
A Baroque church of the late 16th century, part of the Cathedral Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau. It stands in the city's peninsular part, on the Largo de São Domingos near the Leal Senado Building.
Photo: Whhalbert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bridge in Macau Peninsula and Taipa
Also called the Macau–Taipa Bridge, a two-lane, two-way bridge from the Macau Peninsula near Casino Lisboa to Taipa island, at the northern slope of Taipa Pequena, crossing what was the Baía da Praia Grande. It was Macau's first bridge linking the peninsula to Taipa.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Fort in Santo António, Macau, China
A fort in Santo António, Macau, the city's historic military centre.
Photo: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0
World Heritage
Church in Sé, Macau, China
Also called “Sé Catedral da Natividade de Nossa Senhora” or “Igreja da Sé”: today's cathedral of Macau's diocese, a Roman Catholic church in the Sé district.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also written Macao, a special administrative region of China made up of the Macau Peninsula, the islands of Coloane and Taipa, the Cotai reclamation zone between those two, and several smaller islets. Zhuhai lies to its north and west, and Hong Kong to its east, across the Pearl River estuary.
Officially The Macao Special Administrative Region of China[11].
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, Ruins of Saint Paul's, Grand Lisboa and A-Ma Temple and others. Ruins of Saint Paul's, A-Ma Temple, St. Dominic's Church, Macau, Fortaleza do Monte and Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, Macau are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Macao that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
5 of the 10 in this guide: Ruins of Saint Paul's, A-Ma Temple, St. Dominic's Church, Macau, Fortaleza do Monte and Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, Macau. That is not the full count for Macao, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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