Coloane Village
Preserved Portuguese fishing village with a monument marking an 1910 victory over pirates.
This guide to Coloane Village in Macau opens on July 13, 1910, when pirates swept into what they took for a remote, defenseless fishing village and seized eighteen children for ransom. It follows the colonial Portuguese response, forty-five soldiers and a gunboat brought up from Hong Kong against several hundred pirates, and traces how the village still marks the anniversary today on its distinctive black, white and yellow cobblestones. Along the way it touches on the small chapel built in 1928 and the British pharmacist who opened a bakery here in 1989. Stand in the square by the monument and picture the standoff that once filled it.
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