Guia Fortress

The view of the fortress and the lighthouse has been blocked by the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region since 2010.

The fort was already partly built during the unsuccessful attempt by the Netherlands to capture Macau from Portugal, providing an advantageous firing position for defending against naval attacks.

UNESCO then issued a warning to the Macau government, which led former Chief Executive Edmund Ho to sign a notice regulating height restrictions on buildings around the site.

[4] In 2015, the New Macau Association submitted a report to UNESCO claiming that the government had failed to protect Macao's cultural heritage against threats by urban development projects.

[5][4] In 2016, the Macau government approved an 81-metre (266-foot) construction limit for the residential project, which reportedly goes against the city's regulations on the height of buildings around world heritage site Guia Lighthouse.

Distant view of Guia Hill and Guia Fortress (center left of the picture).
The view of Guia Fortress (center of the picture) is blocked by the building of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region .
Constructions on the foothill of Guia Hill in 2017.