Lilau Square - Fountain of Luso
In the distant past, well water was used for cooking and drinking. It can also be found in Lilau Square and inside the Tap Seac Gallery but both are under preservation orders for their historic and cultural significance.
Lilau Square, inhabited by most Portuguese residents in earlier ages, retains traditional Portuguese construction and art deco design. The popular Portuguese phrase "One who drinks from Lilau never forgets Macau" expresses the locals' nostalgic attachment to this interesting Square.
Lilau Square is part of the "Historic Centre of Macau". The square supports two banyan trees over a hundred years old as well as Portuguese residential quarters with a typically Mediterranean atmosphere retaining later art deco influences contrasting strongly with the nearby traditional Chinese architecture of the Mandarin House.
Ten minutes' walk from A-Ma Temple finds the Lilau Square, Mandarin House, a traditional Chinese residential compound home of prominent Chinese literary figure Zheng Guanying built in 1881, and St. Lawrence's Church, built by the Jesuits in the mid-16th Century.