Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park

Urban park in Macau

22°12′58″N 113°32′42″E / 22.216199°N 113.545059°E / 22.216199; 113.545059

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park
紀念孫中山市政公園
Parque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen
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LocationNossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China
Opened1983
Operated byIACM
Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese紀念孫中山市政公園
Simplified Chinese纪念孙中山市政公园
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJìniàn Sūn Zhōngshān Shìzhèng Gōngyuán
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggei2 nim6 syun1 zung1 saan1 si5 zing3 gung1 jyun4*2
Portuguese name
PortugueseParque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park (Chinese: 紀念孫中山市政公園; Portuguese: Parque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen) is an urban park in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China. The park is named for the founding father of the Republic of China, Dr Sun Yat Sen.

The park is a 70,000 square meters (17.3 acres) urban park located in northern Macau in Our Lady of Fatima Parish along the border with Zhuhai, Mainland China. The park is located next to Canal dos Patos, but access to the former canal is closed off, and Barrier Gate. It was originally called Canal dos Patos Park to commemorate the friendship between China and Portugal in 1987. The park is one of forty three parks in the world to bear this name.

The park features:

  • old gate that marked the entrance to Macau from the mainland
  • aviary
  • Victorian greenhouse
  • flower gardens
  • feng shui forest
  • swimming pool
  • playground
  • multi use sports fields
  • Swimming pool
    Swimming pool
  • Wong Ieng Kuan Library
    Wong Ieng Kuan Library
  • Forever Handshake
    Forever Handshake

Public library

The Macao Public Library Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park (紀念孫中山公園黃營均圖書館; Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Parque Dr. Sun Yat Sen) occupies 459 square metres (4,940 sq ft) of space in a former restaurant in the park. One of several created with funding by Chinese Peruvian Wong Ieng Kuan (黃營均), it opened in a separate building in the park in 1996 and moved to its current building on 24 January 2014.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Branch Libraries." Macao Public Library. Retrieved on April 16, 2017. Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen.
  • Sun Yat Sen Park, Macau
  • Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park in Sun Yat-sen Parks in the World Archived 2021-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, publicly accessible with info on 106 parks, provided by Hong Kong Baptist University Library
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