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Ladies' House are also here.
HISTORIC BUILDING
OLD LADIES' HOUSE
www.albcreativelab.com
;
8 Calcada da Igreja de Sao Lazaro; noon-7pm Wed-Mon; 7, 8)
The Old Ladies' House was a shelter for Portuguese refugees from Shànghǎi in WWII, and
later a home for elderly women. It's now run by an art organisation, Albergue SCM, which
organises cultural events here. The two yellow colonial-style buildings sit in a poetic court-
yard with magnificent old camphor trees. Fashion boutique
Lines Lab
and Portuguese gro-
cery shop
Mercearia Portuguesa
are here.
MUSEUM
MUSEUM OF THE HOLY HOUSE OF MERCY
da Misericórdia;adult/child MOP$5/free; 10am-1pm & 2.30-5.30pm Tue-Sun; 3, 6, 26A)
In the heart of Largo do Senado is Macau's oldest charitable institution (c 1569). The house
once sheltered orphans and prostitutes in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today it's a museum
with an eclectic collection that includes religious sculptures, ancient porcelain, and the skull
of its founder and Macau's first bishop, Dom Belchior Carneiro.
CHURCH
CHURCH OF ST DOMINIC
Northeast of Largo do Senado, this baroque church with a beautiful altar and a timber roof
was founded by three Spanish Dominican priests from Acapulco, Mexico, in the 16th cen-
tury, though the current structure dates to the 17th century. It was here, in 1822, that the first
Portuguese newspaper was published on Chinese soil. The former bell tower now houses the
din's cave of ecclesiastical art and liturgical objects exhibited on three floors.
HISTORIC BUILDING
DOM PEDRO V THEATRE
10am-6pm Wed-Mon; 3, 4, 6A, 8A, 19)
Opposite the Church of St Augustine, Dom Pedro V, a colonnaded, neoclassical theatre in
green and white, is the oldest (1858) Western-style theatre in China, and remains an import-
ant cultural venue for the Macanese community.
