Sé (Macau)
 大堂 區 Freguesia of Macau |
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| Coordinates | 22 ° 11 '25 " N , 113 ° 32' 46" E |
| surface | 3.4 km² |
| Residents | 49,400 (2017) |
| Population density | 14,529 inhabitants / km² |
| Former parish | Concelho de Macau |
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The Freguesia de Sé ( Portuguese for cathedral parish , Chinese大堂 區) is a district or, based on the Portuguese model, a freguesia in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau . Within the city of Macau, the Freguesia de Sé belongs to the Macau peninsula, which is congruent with the former municipality of Concelho de Macau .
geography
The district forms the southern end of the Macau peninsula and, with an area of 3.4 km², is the largest of the five freguesias on the peninsula, just before the Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima in the north, with the Freguesia de Sé at the outer harbor of Macau on the east coast has a point of contact in the demarcation Otherwise, the district is bounded in the north by the Freguesia de Santo António and the Freguesia de São Lourenço , to the west is the Freguesia de São Lázaro .
Much of the land area comes from land reclamation . Zone B of the Novos Aterros Urbanos de Macau was the first phase of the land reclamation project and is already built on today. The new land separating the Sai Van Lake and Nam Van Lake almost completely on the open sea.
history
Originally, a freguesia only referred to the parish of a parish church . In the case of the Freguesia de Sé, the cathedral parish, the cathedral of Macau represents that. In 1623, the church at that time was elevated to the seat of the diocese of Macau and thus a cathedral on the site of the current cathedral , making the parish of this church the predecessor of the today's Freguesia de Sé was. Nowadays, the freguesias, as the smallest administrative unit , serve primarily statistical purposes, but they have never been of administrative importance.
Of course, the area of the district was only a fraction of today's area. The actual center around the cathedral, which forms the focal point of the historic center of Macau , is located in what is now the northwest of the Freguesia de Sé. By 1986, the district had been expanded to the east by land reclamation as far as the outer harbor of Macau; previously the center with the cathedral was located directly on the east coast of the Macau peninsula. In 1986 the land area was about half of what it is today. In the 1990s, the district was expanded, especially in the south-east, and in the course of the Novos Aterros Urbanos de Macau, it was finally closed in the south around Lake Nam Van.
Development
Today the Freguesia de Sé can be roughly divided into two parts, each with very different buildings. On the one hand, there is an old town area in the northwest of the district, on the other hand, the areas that can be used for land reclamation have been built on with modern buildings.
The old town area represents the focal point of the historical center of Macau and includes the Macau Cathedral, for example, the Leal Senado , which has been the seat of local government for centuries and is still the seat of the Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais . In addition, other institutions of central importance can be found in this area of the district, for example the Portuguese Consulate General Macau or the Instituto Português do Oriente . There are also many buildings with Portuguese colonial architecture and a maximum of three or four floors, which create a typical old town. The streets are narrow and full of shops. However, the district is also interspersed with many purpose-built, more recent buildings.
The remaining areas made usable through land reclamation are continuously built on with modern building complexes. There are also numerous casinos and hotels and only a few residential buildings, which ensures the low population density of the entire district , which is atypical for Macau . Well-known casino hotels are the Casino Lisboa with the Grand Lisboa and the Wynn Macau . These casino hotels alone have around 3000 rooms. Zone B of the Novos Aterros Urbanos de Macau in the extreme south is still almost undeveloped, but in the southwest there are two more modern buildings on reclaimed land, the Legislative Assembly and the Macau Tower .
population
Since Macau was handed over to the People's Republic of China, the population of the Freguesia de Sé has increased sharply. The population density of 14,529 inhabitants / km² is extremely low for the Macau peninsula and lower than in all other freguesias there. This fact is due to the fact that the building area was mainly used for the construction of hotels and casinos .
| year | population |
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| 1981 | 29,795 |
| 1991 | 29,234 |
| 1996 | 30,108 |
| 2001 | 34.176 |
| 2006 | 40,609 |
| 2011 | 46,849 |
| 2016 | 49,966 |
| 2017 1 | 49,400 |
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Attractions
An important green space, the park Alameda Dr. Carlos d'Assumpção ( Chinese宋玉生 公園), which merges seamlessly into the Jardim do Comendador Ho Yin ( Chinese何賢公 園) garden . The very extensive green space ends on the coast with a statue, the Estátua de Kun Iam . In the old town you will find colonial buildings in particular, including the Cathedral of Macau and the Clube Militar de Macau ( Chinese澳門 陸軍 俱樂部). The most important Catholic church next to the cathedral is the Igreja de São Domingos ( Chinese板 樟 堂). But temples such as the Templo de Sam Kai Vui Kun ( Chinese三 街 會館) also belong to the Historic Center of Macau , a UNESCO World Heritage Site , a significant part of which is located in the Freguesia de Sé.
The Macau Tower and the numerous casinos, on the other hand, represent the modern image of Macau.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Macau: Parishes & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather, and Web Information. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b DSSOPT - Speech de Informação de Planeamento Urbanístico. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Macau | The state of land reclamation. Retrieved July 26, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Historic Center of Macao. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .