| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Place: | Portuguese Square |
| Details: | Roughly 4km east of the city centre, this seaside square populated by seafood restaurants is the focal point of Melaka City s Eurasian community. Many of the residents are descended from marriages between the colonial Portuguese and Malays some 400 years ago and many of them speak Kristang, a Creole language that mixes Malay with archaic Portuguese. The square, styled after a typical Portuguese mercado, wasn t completed until the late 1980s. |
| Category: | BUILDING |