Spark + Dreams

On this page, we share with you about what inspires us, about what has recently inspired us. Recently, we developed a Research Work named “The Maritime Silk Road and its connection with Macao historical relics”, following an invitation by the Cultural Institute, in Macau Special Administrative Region (Macau S.A.R.), China. This Research Work was developed for some months, reaching 316 pages, with the purpose of discovering the aspects that connect Macao’s Fortifications with the Maritime Silk Road, in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the ones related with Architecture. This was an Investigation describing in detail about how some of those Fortification’s features, their location, the way they were built, why they were built that way, their construction methods, the instruments used, the historic, economic, and social context in which they were constructed, how all these aspects were somehow connected with the Maritime Silk Road.
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It was most interesting to do this Research Work. Some of these Military Structures were the first constructions in Macao territory, upon the arrival of the Portuguese, in the South China sea, so some of them were deeply connected with their journey in the Maritime Silk Road. One of these connections was related to the construction methods applied in other Portuguese Fortifications across the journey in the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and South China sea. During this Research Work, another aspect that fascinated us is related to the inventive instruments used during the Maritime Silk Road, which reveal about the incredible Human Ingenuity. One of those instruments is the Nautical Astrolab, which was fundamental for the orientation of the ships in high seas and reveals about the inventive Human Spirit.

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