Malacca (Malaysia) - Wink Travel Guide

Modern-day Malacca is a vibrant old city with a unique historical and cultural background from being the capital of a powerful Malay kingdom before the colonial era, as well as subsequent Portuguese, Dutch and British rule.

The city centre was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in July 2008, along with Georgetown, Penang.

The older part of the city proper has, in addition to the old palace and the large buildings left by the Europeans, many private houses and shops from nearly a century or more ago, put up by Chinese traders

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