Jardim Luis de Camoes, a shady park full of large trees and granite boulders covered in ferns, contains a grotto built in honour of the great sixteenth-century Portuguese poet, Luis de Camoes, who is thought to have been banished here for part of his life. Immediately east, though, is the real gem, the Old Protestant Cemetery, where all the non-Catholic traders, visitors, sailors and adventurers who happened to die in Macau were buried. The gravestones have been restored and are quite legible, recording the last testaments to these mainly British, American and German individuals, who died far from home in the early part of the nineteenth century.

   It is a park at Praza de Luis de Camoes on the northeast part of Macau. It used to be the grounds of the Casa Garden, the house belonging to the chairman of the British East India Company. After the British moved out in 1835, the Portuguese owner added a grotto around the bust of Luis de Camoes, Portugal's national poet. The bust was installed in 1886 when the gardens became state property. Although the garden was named after Luis de Camoes, it is not certained whether he had ever visited the place.

   Within the Camoes Garden is the Camoes Grotto. Behind the grotto, pathways lead up a hill with spreads of ferns, fan palms, flowering plants and banyan trees. At the entrance to the garden is a fountain and a sculpture entitled "Embrace". It was created to symbolize the friendship between Portugal and China.
Getting there

  
   Buses that pass by the Camoes Garden include No. 8A, 17, 18, 19 and 26.