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St Paul’s Hill

St Paul’s Hill offers beautiful scenery as well as a step back into time as visitors can explore the likes of the prominent A’Famosa fortress and St Paul’s Church.

The hill is famously known as being the base of the A’Famosa fortress, or the Porta de Santiago, which was one of the four main gates built by the Portugese in 1512. Under Alfonso de Albuquerque, the Portugese seized Melaka in 1511, and ruled for almost 150 years. The fortress walls and gates were then destroyed after the British seized Melaka from the Dutch. 

On the top of St Paul’s Hill sits the St Paul’s Church, which was once a chapel for Portugese Catholics. It was later turned into a burial ground for the noble dead by the Dutch. This was also the place where St Francis Xavier had been buried in 1553, before his body was moved to Goa in India.