Copying Rome
The Romans used to take the great obelisks from Egypt and then make copies in Rome; the Japanese built a replica of the Eiffel Tower and just couldn’t resist making it a bit taller, Las Vegas copied Venice, and now Macau has tried to copy Rome!! There’s something about copies though, either they are made more impressive than the original, or they are cheaply made and look a whole lot worse than the original. Macau is most definitely the latter!
So what is Macau? 
A collection of copies - Earlier on they copied (generally bad) Portuguese and Chinese architecture, and more recently of all sorts of western things which most Chinese who go there will never see in real life. Want to see the Colosseum but can’t go to Rome? See the fake one in Macau. Want to see the Roman forum? Well it’s sitting near the fake Colosseum. If you’ve been to the real things though, the fakes just pale in comparison! They are poorly made and look like a cheap movie set, and they just aren’t 2000 years old!!
You can also see a replica of the Wynn casino, which is 5 times smaller in Macau than that in Las Vegas. The Venetian is supposed to be a better version of Las Vegas with 3 canals instead of 1 (although only 1 is open now), and the Sands which made its owner very happy when it recovered the initial investment in only 6 months!!
Macau does have some impressive bridges though. But then again, to connect the different islands over the pretty long distances, it needs them.
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that’s actually impressive. a replica of old rome. I just hope they have the armors, and have the guards there wearing the roman phalanx armors.
although.. it really looks boring.. as you two pointed out. hahahaha
Well they do have replicas of armor and swords. But they look like they’re made out of cheap plastic and were bought at a party store.
I didn’t see any guards though, but then a Chinese dressed as a roman legionnaire would probably look a bit odd