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Portuguese Settlement, Malacca

The Portuguese Settlement is a neighbourhood in Ujong Pasir, Malacca City, which serves as a home for the Kristang or Portuguese-Eurasian people of Malacca.

Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
Portuguese Settlement, Malacca · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Portuguese Settlement is a neighbourhood in Ujong Pasir, Malacca City, which serves as a home for the Kristang or Portuguese-Eurasian people of Malacca.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Portuguese Settlement, Malacca

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    A Famosa

    A Famosa was a Portuguese fortress built in Malacca, Malaysia, around 1512. The oldest part of the fortress was a five-storey keep which eventually gave its name to the fortress as a whole.

    1.8 km · Portuguese fortress in Melaka, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Malacca Straits Mosque

    The Malacca Straits Mosque is a mosque located on the artificial Malacca Island in Malacca City, Malaysia. Constructed at a cost of about MYR10 million, it was inaugurated on 24 November 2006 by the King of Malaysia, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail.

    2 km · mosque in Melaka Tengah, Malacca, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kampung Hulu Mosque

    Kampung Hulu Mosque is a mosque situated at Kampong Hulu Village in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. It is the oldest mosque in Malacca and among the oldest in the country, having originally built around the year 1720–1728 and underwent renovation in 1892.

    2.5 km · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al Azim Mosque

    Al-Azim Mosque is the state mosque of Malacca. It is located next to the Malacca General Hospital, the Malacca Al-Quran Museum and the State Heroes Mausoleum and was constructed to replace the former state mosque at Tranquerah Mosque and officially opened on 13 July 1990 by the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak.

    3.3 km · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kampung Kling Mosque

    Kampong Kling Mosque is a mosque in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. Established in 1748, it is one of the oldest mosques on the Malay Peninsula.

    2.4 km · mosque in Melaka, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Christ Church, Malacca

    Christ Church, Malacca, is an 18th-century Dutch-built Anglican church in the city of Malacca City, Malaysia. It is the oldest functioning Protestant church in Malaysia and is within the jurisdiction of the Lower Central Archdeaconry of the Anglican Diocese of West Malaysia.

    2.1 km · church in Malacca, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum

    Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum also known as the Melaka Sultanate Palace Museum is a museum located at the foot of St. Paul's Hill in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia.

    1.9 km · museum in Malacca, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cheng Hoon Teng

    The Cheng Hoon Teng Temple is a Chinese temple practising the Three Doctrinal Systems of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism located at No. 25 Jalan Tokong, Malacca City, Malaysia.

    2.5 km · Chinese temple in Melaka, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Malacca Literature Museum

    Malacca Literature Museum is a museum about Malaysian literary works in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia, which resembles the structural design of a residence and was officiated by Chief Minister Mohd Zin Abdul Ghani in 1984. The museum's building was built during the British Malaya on St.

    2 km · museum in Melaka Tengah, Malacca, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    People's Museum

    People's Museum is a museum in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia, which records and preserves the achievements of Malacca in the development sector and officially opened on 16 April 1992 by then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. It is located at the ground floor of the former Historical City of Malacca Municipal Council building, originally constructed in the 1960s and believed to be built on top of the ruins of Dutch building, which also houses the Beauty Museum and Kite Museum at the upper floors.

    2 km · museum in Melaka Tengah, Malacca, Malaysia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Portuguese Settlement, Malacca

Airports
Kuala Lumpur (KUL), 88 km · Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB), 132 km · Senai (JHB), 167 km
  • Sepang → Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · RM22–29
  • Subang → Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
    1148 km · quickest by air, 14h 5m · Rp2,618,200–4,032,350
  • Johor Bahru → Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · RM42–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Portuguese Settlement, Malacca

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Portuguese Settlement, Malacca. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChartered taxi services are available from the end of Jalan Kee Ann.
  • Get inDaily ferries run from Bengkalis, Dumai and Pekanbaru in Sumatra, Indonesia.
  • Get inAll ferries arrive and depart from the (Jeti Shahbandar) at Taman Melaka Raya near the Maritime Museum.
  • Get aroundChartered taxis would cost about RM20 to go anywhere in the city whereas an e-hailing ride may be lower than half the price for a much safer and cleaner car and driver.

From Wikivoyage: Malacca, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    176 km
  3. 03
    TiomanMY

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    224 km
  4. 04
    Tanjung Pinang and BintanID

    9 ways of moving, 49 sources

    281 km
  5. 05
    Lake Toba and SamosirID

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    381 km

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Next door to Portuguese Settlement, Malacca

Portuguese Settlement, Malacca is 3 km from Malacca, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.