Rua dos Mercadores
Rua dos Mercadores is located in the Old Taipa Village that starts in Rua do Meio and ends in Travessa da Esperança, about 135 metres long and approximately 7 metres wide. It is a cement road slightly winding and running southwest-northeast. “Mercadores” in Portuguese means “merchants”. In the surrounding areas, the buildings in Rua dos Negociantes, as well as Pou Sun Pawnbroker’s Tower in Travessa da Felicidade and Carmo Fair, bear traces of hustle and bustle of the area from early years when trade and commerce prospered. The origin of the road remains to be researched, but its record can be found in Father Manuel Teixeira's“Taipa and Coloane” published in 1981.
With low-rise houses, scattered small restaurants and cafes in this area, there is a large flow of visitors. The area has been rated by the Macao SAR Government as a complex of artistic value and planned as an integral part of the“leisure and cultural area”.
The road is rich in colours. Strolling from one end of the road to the other, you can find over ten different colours, including light green, milky white, golden brown, reddish orange, bluish green, saffron yellow, blue, and coral, among others.
Colourful but not dizzy, the road looks like a small European town.
With low-rise houses, scattered small restaurants and cafes in this area, there is a large flow of visitors. The area has been rated by the Macao SAR Government as a complex of artistic value and planned as an integral part of the“leisure and cultural area”.
The road is rich in colours. Strolling from one end of the road to the other, you can find over ten different colours, including light green, milky white, golden brown, reddish orange, bluish green, saffron yellow, blue, and coral, among others.
Colourful but not dizzy, the road looks like a small European town.
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