Santo António is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

( pt, freguesia) in the western portion of the

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. It has the highest population density in

(98,776 persons per km²). This parish was one of five in the former

Municipality of Macau The Municipality of Macau ( pt, Concelho de Macau) was one of two municipalities of Macau, along with the Municipality of Ilhas. Governance Its bodies were the Municipal Council of Macau, municipal council (''Câmara Municipal de Macau'') and ...

, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001, following the 1999

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from Portugal to China. While their administrative functions have since been removed, these parishes are still retained nominally. It is north of the parish of Sé, south of Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish, west of São Lázaro parish, and east of the Inner Harbor (Porto Interior).

Description

The entire area is reclaimed from the sea. Population statistics as of 2006: *

Area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape A shape or figure is a graphics, graphical representation of an obje ...

: 1.1. km² (16.4% of the peninsula) *

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: 109,000 (31.7% of the peninsular population) It includes: * Sha Gong (沙崗) * San Kio (新橋) * Patane (沙梨頭)

Hotels

Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16 The Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16 () is a hotel in Santo António, Macau, Italy. It is part of Sofitel Luxury Hotels. Over the past few years since opening its doors in 2008, Sofitel Macau and the management have been credited a number of tourism aw ...

Healthcare

The parish houses a private hospital,

Kiang Wu Hospital Kiang Wu Hospital (KWH; ) is a privately owned hospital located in Santo António, Macau. It is one of the three hospitals in Macau. Founded in 1871, the hospital is run by the Kiang Wu Charitable Association and offered Chinese medical services. R ...

. The Macau government operates the Centro de Saúde Macau Norte (筷子基衛生中心 meaning "Fai Chi Kei Health Center") in Santo António, near Bairro Fai Chi Kei.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

All primary and secondary schools in Santo António are private. : In the tuition-free school network: :*

Colégio Mateus Ricci Colégio Mateus Ricci () is a Roman Catholic kindergarten/preschool through secondary school in Macau and a member of the Macau Catholic Schools Association. It was named after Matteo Ricci and established in 1955. Caritas Macau established the ...

: One secondary campus and one primary/kindergarten campus :*

Kwong Tai Middle School Kwong Tai Middle School or Guang Da Middle School ( pt, Escola Kwong Tai, ) is a private school in Macau, serving preschool through secondary school. It has a main campus in Nossa Senhora de Fátima (Our Lady of Fatima Parish) and a branch campu ...

branch campus :* (; ) - Preschool through secondary school :* Sacred Heart Canossian College English section - Primary and secondary school :*

Hou Kong Middle School Macau Hou or HOU may refer to: * -hou, a place-name element * Hou (surname) * Hou (currency) (Chinese: ), a unit of currency in Greater China * Hou (Odder Municipality), a town in Denmark * Hou (title) (Chinese: ), a title in ancient China * Denglo ...

(; ) kindergarten and primary school campuses :* Escola Shá Lei Tau Cham Son () - Preschool and primary school :* (; ) - Primary and secondary school :* (; ) - Preschool through senior high school :* Escola da Sagrada Família () - Preschool and primary school :* (; ) - Santo António - Operated by the Union for Development (Associação Geral dos Operarios de Macau) : Not in the tuition-free network: :*

Chan Sui Ki Perpetual Help College Chan Sui Ki Perpetual Help College (, pt, Colégio Perpétuo Socorro Chan Sui Ki; abbreviated as: Perpetual Help College; init: PHC) is a private Grant-in-aid primary and secondary school in Macau, with a main campus in São Lázaro (Saint Lazar ...

(Branch) (; ) - Preschool and primary school Former schools: : Tuition-free network: :* Escola do Santíssimo Rosário - Preschool through junior high school Escola do Santíssimo Rosário
" Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (Macau). Retrieved on April 9, 2017. "Endereço : Largo da Companhia, No. 14, Macau
Chinese profile
"學校地址: 老人院前地14號"

Public libraries

Macao Public Library The Macao Public Library (; pt, Biblioteca Pública de Macau) is the public library system of Macau. The head office is on the ground floor of the old building of the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library in São Lourenço (Saint Lawrence Parish). Hist ...

operates three two branches in the parish:Branch Libraries
"

. Retrieved on April 16, 2017
PortugueseTraditional ChineseSimplified Chinese
/ref> * Patane Library (''Biblioteca do Patane''; 沙梨頭圖書館) ** It occupies seven buildings first built in the 1930s and renovated by the

Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a popu ...

. The library itself opened on 9 December 2016. * Red Market Library (''Biblioteca do Mercado Vermelho''; 紅街市圖書館) ** It occupies of a former post office, and first opened on 24 July 2012. * Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Luis de Camões Garden (''Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim Luis de Camões''; 白鴿巢公園黃營均圖書館) ** It is in a , two story facility that first opened in 1999. It is one of several libraries built with funding by Wong Ieng Kuan (), a

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Tourist attractions

* Camões Grotto * Casa Garden * Fire Services Museum * Mount Fortress *

Macau Protestant Chapel Morrison Chapel ( pt, Capela Protestante; zh, t=馬禮遜教堂), also known as Morrison Protestant Chapel, is an Anglican chapel situated in Luís de Camões Square, Santo António, Macau. Originally built in the early 19th century to serve th ...

* Museum of Macau *

Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt The Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt (; pt, Museu de Arte Sacra e Cripta) is a museum in Santo António, Macau, China. History The museum was constructed at the former site of the College of the Mother of God and Church of Saint Paul. It was in ...

Na Tcha Temple The Na Tcha Temple ( pt, Templo Na Tcha; ), built in 1888, is a Chinese folk religion temple in Santo António, Macau, China. It is dedicated to the worship of the popular Deity Na Tcha () or Sam Tai Tsz (). History The Na Tcha Temple was bu ...

* Old Protestant Cemetery *

Ruins of St. Paul's The Ruins of Saint Paul's (; pt, Ruínas de São Paulo) are the ruins of a 17th-century Catholic religious complex in Santo António, Macau, China. They include what was originally St. Paul's College and the Church of St. Paul (''Igreja de S ...

References

External links

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Portuguese version
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