This parish was one of five in the former
Municipality of Macau, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001, following the 1999
transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China. While their administrative functions have since been removed, these parishes are still retained nominally.
It is north of the parish of
Sé, south of
Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish, west of
São Lázaro parish, and east of the Inner Harbor (Porto Interior).
The Macau government operates the Centro de Saúde Macau Norte (筷子基衛生中心 meaning "Fai Chi Kei Health Center") in Santo António, near Bairro
Fai Chi Kei.[2]
Education
Primary and secondary schools
All primary and secondary schools in Santo António are private.
It occupies seven buildings first built in the 1930s and renovated by the
Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau. The library itself opened on 9 December 2016.[21]
Red Market Library (Biblioteca do Mercado Vermelho; 紅街市圖書館)
It occupies 260 m2 (2,800 sq ft) of a former post office, and first opened on 24 July 2012.[21]
Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Luis de Camões Garden (Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim Luis de Camões; 白鴿巢公園黃營均圖書館)
It is in a 675 m2 (7,270 sq ft), two story facility that first opened in 1999. It is one of several libraries built with funding by Wong Ieng Kuan (
Chinese: 黃營均), a
Chinese Peruvian.[21]
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Kiang Wu Hospital. Retrieved on April 21, 2018. "地址:鏡湖醫院位於澳門連勝街" (Estr. de Coelho do Amaral)
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Contacte-Nos."
Macau Health Bureau. Retrieved on April 21, 2018. "Centro de Saúde Macau Norte (Bairro Fai Chi Kei) Estrada Marginal de Patane, Macau"
Chinese version: "筷子基衛生中心 澳門沙梨頭海邊大馬路929號"
^"Home page". Colégio Mateus Ricci. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 中學部:澳門大三巴巷一號A[...]幼初小部:白鴿巢前地4號
Note: The civil parishes are purely symbolic. There are currently no political administrative subdivisions in Macau, and instead, the
Municipal Affairs Bureau handles some of the functions formerly handled by the abolished municipalities, the former had replaced the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau that was formed in 2002.