Grand Lisboa Macau

This guide to Grand Lisboa Macau tells the story behind the golden, lotus-shaped tower rising over the city: Stanley Ho, the man who insisted he knew nothing of gambling while holding sole control of Macau's entire casino industry for four decades, after winning the license in nineteen sixty-one for less than half a million dollars. It follows Ho from a young wartime refugee trading across the Chinese border to the builder of what was, on opening in December two thousand eight, the tallest tower on the peninsula. Inside, look for the Star of Stanley Ho, a diamond he called his own gift to the city's citizens.