Guia Fortress

A hilltop fort crowning the highest point of the Macau peninsula, built in the seventeenth century and topped by a chapel and the oldest modern lighthouse on the China coast. The whitewashed lighthouse, first lit in 1865, remains a working navigational beacon and an emblem of the territory. Within the fort, the small Chapel of Our Lady of Guia preserves rare frescoes blending Chinese and Western religious imagery. A cable car and wooded paths lead up through a park to the ramparts and their sweeping harbour views.