Introduction to Macao
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World Heritage


  On July 15, 2019 , at the 29th Conference of World Heritage Committee held in Durban , South Africa , "The Historic Centre of Macao" was recognized and became China 's 31 st item of world heritages. In the selection of Top Five Most Beautiful Ancient City Blocks of China by Chinese National Geography Magazine, Macao ranked the third place. In the Historic Centre, there are 25 historic buildings, where the Macao residents assemble and live. These sites are appealing to tourists.
  The Historic Centre of Macao includes the oldest western architectural heritage in China today, and represents the combination of eastern and western architectural techniques.
The Historic Centre of Macao witnesses the development of western religions and cultures in China and the Far East , and testifies the historic origin of China 's folk religions spreading to the western world.
  The Historic Centre of Macao is the reflection of diversified coexistence of Chinese and western cultures, constituting the unique blend of cultural heritages existing in China 's historic cities.
  The Historic Centre of Macao presents an orderly integration of Chinese and western communities, which have been indispensable to the habits, customs and traditions of the residents from different places since ancient times.
   The Historic Centre of Macao has the best preservation reflecting the exchange between Chinese and western cultures in the past 400 years. It is China's oldest and biggest historic area with rich and centralized European and Chinese architectural heritages while European style buildings take the dominating place; it not only witnesses the spreading of western religions and cultures in China and the Far East, but displays the exchange, mutual supplementation and coexistence of Chinese and western cultures.


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