Looking for a site that offers great sightseeing places and fun gambling places for your vacation?

Consider Macau, an island nested on the western side of the Pearl River Delta across Hong Kong. Macau offers you to experience the oriental traditional Chinese culture and Western Portuguese baroque buildings at the same time. Every aspects of life in the city show the blend of people, culture and history. Macau is a highly cultured city, proven by the fact that it houses up to 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 
Gambling enthusiasts also find Macau a great place to vacation. Indeed, Macau is also renowned as the Mecca for gamblers. Here are some of the places to visit in Macau. 

The Historic Centre of Macau

Ama Temple
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Moorish Barracks
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Lilau Square
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Casa Garden
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Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2004, the Historic Centre of Macao is a a collection of over twenty locations that is witness to the hundreds of years of unique and beautiful assimilation between the oriental traditional Chinese and the Western Portuguese cultures and architectural styles. 
UNESCO describes the site: "with its historic street, residential, religious and public Portuguese and Chinese buildings, the historic centre of Macao provides a unique testimony to the meeting of aesthetic, cultural, architectural and technological influences from East and West...It bears witness to one of the earliest and long-lasting encounters between China and the West, based on the vibrancy of international trade.

 Leal Senado


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The Leal Senado has been the center of Urban Macau since the Portuguese colony era in Macau. The square is packed with neo-classical buildings painted in soft Portuguese colors, where some trade clothes and electronics of high-end brands.
Meanwhile, the Leal Senado Building (Loyale Senate in Portuguese) functioned as Macau’s government office. The building was built in 1784, but it adopted the plain style of the 14th to 15th Century Portugal rather than the baroque style that was popular back then. Since the handover of Macau to China in 1999 – Macau had been a Portuguese colony since the 16th century – the Leal Senado Building became the the Institute of Civic and Municipal Affairs. It has become part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Macau since 2005
This is the location of most visits to the historical centre of Macau. The popular trips include the surrounding streets to Senado Square and the Ruins of St. Paul.
Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral

  
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This is Macau’s most famous landmark and is another Historic Centre of Macau location inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The Ruins of St. Paul's features a spectacular façade with complicated decorations carved by Japanese monks.
Constructed in 1580, St. Paul's Church may be the most unfortunate church. Destroyed by fire in 1595 and 1601, the church was rebuilt in 1637. But a violent typhoon struck in 1835 and the church caught fire for the third time.  
Now, the front façade and the grand stone stairs appear gloriously before tourists, showing a perfect fusion of western and eastern cultures.

The Venetian Macau Casino

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The luxurious 4-storey Venetian hotel, casino and amusement resort is sited on the Cotai, a 5.2 square kilometer piece of reclaimed land on the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane. 
As for the hotel, the resort has up to 3,000 suites, 111,000 square meters of convention space, 149,000 square meters of retail space, including a canal lined with shops, where you can also take a gondola ride and 51,000 square meters of casino space. The casino features more than 3,400 slot machines and 800 gambling tables, making it probably one of the busiest casinos in Macau. And with 550,000 square feet of floor space, it is also probably the biggest.

City of Dreams 

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The City of Dreams is a property sited in the Cotai Strip reclamation area and most famous for its world-class shows, including the the House of the Dancing Water at the Dancing Water Theatre. The City of Dreams is a popular place among vacationers to spend both at daytime as well as at night. The House of Dancing Water" won a 2012 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement for a Live Show Spectacular.

Grand Lisboa Casino


The loftus shaped Grand Lisboa Hotel is a 58-floor hotel that was only opened in December 2008 and situated just of Avenue D’Amizade. The hotel boasts 430 hotel rooms and suites, 12 restaurants and a large casino consisting of 800 gaming tables and 1,000 slot machines. It is the tallest building in Macau.
The Star of Stanley Ho is on permanent display at the Casino Grand Lisboa. The 218.08 carats diamond is the biggest cushion-shaped internally flawless D-color diamond in the world. 

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