Apart from the hill at the centre, this gate is all that is left of Alfonso d'Albuquerque's 1511 fort. And this is only here because our friend Raffles intervened to halt the demolition.
St Paul's Church, 1521, is not in any better a state. But it is quite extraordinary to walk on European tomb slabs in the floor of the nave. The Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English and Japanese have held this place. A light house in front of a church, neat.
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