Matteo Ricci

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Matteo Ricci':

  • Churches and Convents of Goa 1578 stays as Jesuit Priest for 4 years assigned teaching duties at College of St Paul
  • Classical Gardens of Suzhou c1598/9 vists after first failure to see Emperor
  • Imperial Palace 1601 First Westerner in Forbidden city, stayed until his death in 1610
  • Macao 1582 arrives and starts learning Chinese (Coinciding with building of Jesuit Cathedral of St Paul 1582 - 1602 now ruined)
  • Rome 1571 enters Society of Jesus at the Roman College (Later the Pontifical Gregorian University or Gregorianum)