Excerpt from Macau-World Heritage: Barra Square lies in front of the A-Ma Temple. Facing the Inner Harbour, its front part is constructed from famous Portuguese mosaid, with ochre and charcoal as the principal colours. The tiles are laid in a wavy pattern to mirror the flow of a nearby river. The overall effect is one of fluidity and gives a strong seaside flavour.
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The facade of what was originally the Church of Mater Dei built in 1602, but destroyed by fire in 1835, together with St. Paul's College which stood adjacent to the church. The archaeological remains of the old College of St. Paul stand witness to what was the first western-style university in the Far East.
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This solid brick structure was built in 1622 and renovated in 1743. The facade is characterized by pilasters and the twin belfries and the exterior is clad in Shanghai plaster.
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Excerpt from gramho.com:
There is a residential mansion called Yu-Qing-Tang 餘慶堂 (Yuqing Mansion) in the Mandarin's House, which was built by Zheng Wenrui, and the mansion boasts a horizontal inscribed board and two antithetical couplets on four columns. These also reflect on the Zheng family's philosophy of straightforwardness and uncomplicatedness, uniqueness, and doing good deeds to accumulate virtue. The horizontal inscribed board shows the mansion is named after Yuqing due to a classical Chinese book “Commentary on Words of Text (Wenyan Zhuan)”. It says in order to ensure the continuity of the next few generations, the family has to practice goodness to accumulate virtues and merits for the future generations so that the descendants of the family might have a chance to avoid calamity and sorrows.
鄭家大屋內有一座大樓名為“餘慶堂”，由鄭文瑞所興建，內藏的一幅牌匾和四條柱子上的兩副楹聯，處處展現著鄭氏家風樸實無華、道骨仙風、積德為上的理念。從牌匾可見，大樓以“餘慶＂為名，實乃出自《周易坤卦 文言傳》之記載，即是既然要確保子孫世代繁衍, 家族代代為子孫種下厚重的陰德善行，或有可能為家族避開禍殃以護蔭後人.
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