Qualla: Coloane https://qualla.com/coloane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Coloane https://qualla.com/coloane Coloane: Introduction https://qualla.com/coloane/ July 13 is a holiday in Coloane. The occasion it marks is not a religious feast or a colonial anniversary but something more particular: a battle. In July 1910, a band of pirates kidnapped 18 Chinese children from the island and demanded 35,000 Macanese patacas in ransom. Portuguese troops fought for ten days to free them. All 310 pirates active in the area were killed, captured, or driven out. It was the last military engagement ever fought by Portuguese forces in Macau. Every year since, the people of Coloane have commemorated the victory with a statue in front of the Chapel of St. Francis Xavier and a day off work. The chapel was built in 1928, eighteen years after the battle it stands near — a quiet structure that happens to have housed, at one point, some of the most important Christian relics in Asia.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/v/coloane-wp/webv-coloane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Coloane: Salt Farms, Pirates, and the Long Arm of Lisbon https://qualla.com/coloane/ From the Song dynasty until Portugal annexed Coloane in 1864, the island served China as a sea salt farm. Its terrain — mountainous, sparsely inhabited, isolated — made it useful for salt production and, in later centuries, for something else: piracy. The Ming dynasty's flourishi...

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