Guia Fortress and Lighthouse

This guide to Guia Fortress and Lighthouse in Macau starts in eighteen sixty-five, when the first lighthouse on the China coast came on above the harbor, giving sailors on the Pearl River Delta a fixed point of light for the first time. It follows the tower through the Great Typhoon of eighteen seventy-four, which knocked it dark, and the long stretch that followed before anyone fixed it. The guide also takes you into the seventeenth-century fortress below and its chapel, where frescoes blending European and Chinese motifs stayed hidden until a restoration uncovered them. Climb the hilltop for the harbor view the beacon has watched over ever since.