St Paul's Hill, Malacca

After visiting the Sultanate Palace, we walked up to the St Paul's Hill. St Paul's Hill is also known as Bukit Saint Paul. St. Paul sits on the hill just behind the A'Famosa Fotress. Built at 1571 by the Portuguese and regularly visited by St Francis Xavier from China. His statue also standing still in the front of this ruins. On top of St. Paul's Hill is the St. Paul's Church, once the prayer house of the Portuguese Catholics, then turned into burial ground for their noble dead by the Dutch. The tombstones have Latin and Portuguese inscriptions on them. St. Francis Xavier was buried here in 1553 before his body was moved to Goa in India.