“The Historic Centre of Macao” has, as of 15th
July, been officially listed as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. To commemorate
this event with everybody in Macao, the Cultural Affairs Bureau is holding a
“Let’s Celebrate! Macao UNESCO World Heritage” Free Postcard Campaign today and
tomorrow.
Everybody is invited to come to the special
booths in Senado Square, Areia Preta Park and Carmo Fair (Taipa) to pick up a
commemorative postcard and then send it off for free to their family and friends
across the globe.
The campaign will run from 9 am on Saturday 16th
July to 10 pm on Sunday 16th July. Large amounts of postcards have been prepared
in four batches and to give everybody a fair chance to participate there are
four starting times for distribution: 9 am and 6 pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
Starting at those times, all the available postcards will be handed out until
there are none left, so to make sure you receive your postcard, please make sure
you get to the booth around one of the distribution start times! Participants
can send the postcards to addresses in mainland China and overseas immediately
by handing them over to assistants who will paste on commemorative stamps. The
Macao Post Office will frank and send them out immediately. This postal service
is free of charge until 10 pm on each night.
The theme of the commemorative postcards, stamps
and post office frank is “Macao: World Heritage”, with designs reflecting
Macao’s cultural pluralism and carrying the message ‘Celebrate with us! “The
Historic Centre of Macao” is now UNESCO World Cultural Heritage!’ in English,
Portuguese and Chinese.
At the same time, the Cultural Affairs Bureau
will distribute the commemorative postcards to schools, associations and
organizations in Macao to let their members and employees join in the campaign
and celebrate this significant moment in Macao’s history.
For more information, please visit the Cultural
Affairs Bureau’s website: www.icm.gov.mo, or
telephone 3996699 or 3996666.
