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Section of the Old City Walls of Macau

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Section of the Old City Walls of Macau in China
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The Section of the Old City Walls are the remains of a wall that surrounded the colonial city of Macau, in Portuguese Macau, in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The wall's construction is unique because it was built of clay, sand, rice straw, rocks, and oyster shells.

Text adapted from “Walls of Macau” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Section of the Old City Walls of Macau ranks #3,907 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #62 of the 120 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.

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