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Fort São Francisco (Macau)

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St. Francisco Fortress
St. Francisco Fortress

The Fort São Francisco of Macau (Fortaleza de São Francisco de Macau in Portuguese) also known as the São Francisco Barracks (Quartel de São Francisco in Portuguese) is a former fort of the Portuguese Empire built in Macau, China. It was erected southeast of Praia Grande, in front of Taipa channel. The fort was originally a artillery battery, the fire of which sank the Dutch warship Gallias during the Battle of Macau. It was expanded in 1629 and turned into a proper fort. It had an oval shape and its walls measured six meters high.The fort was incorporated into the Monastery of Saint Francis, built by Spanish missionaries in 1580 but it closed in 1834 and was demolished in 1861. Five years later the São Francisco Barracks were installed in the fort, to house the 4th Line Battalion, transferred to Macau in 1864. On the cape just below the barracks the Battery 1º de Dezembro was built, in 1872 but it was demolished when the Outer Harbour was filled, in 1934. It's artillery included a culverin that could fire a 17kg cannoball across the channel. Its installations currently house the Macau Security Forces Management Bureau and Museum, established in 1991 to take over the functions from the former Public Security Forces Headquarters. Within, a collection of old guns and armoured cars can be found, as well as paintings of the old fort and monastery, and other military artefacts.

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Fort São Francisco (Macau)
嘉思欄行車天橋 Viaduto de S.Francisco,

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澳門保安部隊事務局、澳門保安部隊博物館 Direcção dos Serviços das Forças de Segurança de Macau、Museu das Forças de Segurança de Macau

嘉思欄行車天橋 Viaduto de S.Francisco
519020 , Grand Beach
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Academia de Música S. Pio X is a multi-lingual music school founded by the priest Áureo Castro in 1962, under the suggestion of the director of the Lisbon National Conservatory. Its original name was "Escola das Missões Católicas" (lit. "School of the Catholic Missions"), and the school opened its doors on 2 October with 48 enrolled students. Its initial staff was composed by Cesare Brianza (piano), Maria de Lurdes Ruas Freire Garcia (piano), António Freire Garcia (violin), Marcos Lau and two other unidentified teachers, known as Liang e Chao. In 1975, bishop Macau, D. Arquimínio da Costa authorized an expansion of the school using funds from the government. Governor António Lopes dos Santos also started conceding a mensal allowance for it, alleging it was "a private institution of cultural value, considered to be of utility to the province" (in Portuguese: "Uma instituição particular de carácter cultural, considerada de utilidade para a Província"). According to the words of Áureo Castro, "the academy was founded with the purpose of giving young men from Macau, Portuguese and Chinese, a gradually progressive musical institution. So there was the need of using a bilingual educational system, using Portuguese and Chinese; and later also English. Of the many students that were taught by the academy, at least three dozen proceeded with their musical studies, graduating in diverse music colleges. Several also now live in Canada, United States, Hong Kong and Australia." (adapted, see footnotes for lit.).