Senado Square

This guide to Senado Square in Macau opens on December 3, 1966, when a crowd toppled a colonial statue and set city records ablaze inside the Leal Senado building. It traces why that building was named Loyal in the first place — a Portuguese honor from 1810 — and follows the unrest through a formal apology signed weeks later beneath a portrait of Mao Zedong. Look down at the black-and-white wave mosaic underfoot, hand-set stone by stone in the Portuguese calcada technique.