In the th and th centuries, Taipa was composed of two separate islands. It even had a port in which sailboats were moored in the East Indies merchant with China. Their shipments of goods of muslin, manufactured goods and opium were transhipped on smaller ships from the Pearl River to Canton. They came back with tea, silk and porcelain. The canal between the two islands was obstrua and the two islands formed only one. Taipa had to convert into fireworks, vegetable cultivation and duck breeding. Today, the island still has several remains capable of giving us an idea of its rural charm of yesteryear. In recent years, however, it has undergone intensive development, contributing to the extension of the urbanisation urbanisation of the Macao Peninsula.In 1995, the Macao airport was first built at the end of Taipa Island. It was necessary to blast a whole hill to bridge a wide enough surface to receive the hangars, and build an airstrip on stilts in the sea. In recent years too, as fungi, Four Seasons, Crowne, Hyatt, Venetian, Hard Rock… and others are still in the building, which gives the island a battlefield air, almost lunar in places. Each hotel is a world in itself, with casinos, restaurants, swimming pools, golf courses, concert halls… Nothing was left randomly to encourage you to stay locked and spend your money. The most impressive complex of the Cotai Strip, this famous polder between Taipa and Coloane, is still the Venetian with its 980 000 m ², the «cartoonesque» version of a Chinese Venice, far from the legendary Ducal City. In the coming years, the island should be connected to Hong Kong via China through an impressive bridge and tunnel system. The work is under way and the island continues to grow on the sea for the construction of new buildings and, above all, a huge parking lot for all cars coming from Hong Kong.

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