Coloane Village

路環市區(聖方濟各聖堂一帶)

A yellow chapel, the original egg tarts and a slow seaside village

Hours
Village always open; shop hours vary
Tickets
Free
Address
Around the square of St Francis Xavier Chapel (Largo Eduardo Marques), Coloane Village

Twenty-odd minutes by bus from the Cotai casinos, you reach a fishing village where time seems to have stopped. The small cream-coloured Chapel of St Francis Xavier sits on a wave-paved square, with mainland Zhuhai just across the channel. Lord Stow's Bakery, which popularised the Macanese egg tart, has its original shop here, and that's what brings most people. Walk the waterfront to the Tam Kong Temple at the end and you get a sense of what Macau used to be.