gracias a todos los forumers filipinos bong, someguy, sleepwalker_uno, greyx, jbkayaker12, amras, renell, thunderflip

Metro Manila -- a una conglomeracion extensa de 12 ciudades y de 5 municipios. Cada uno es una entidad politica autonoma, pero junto funcionando como una ciudad llamo a Metro Manila (la region del capital nacional de las Filipinas).

Whenever Manila is mentioned, the speaker actually refers--sometimes unknowingly--to a vast conglomeration of 12 cities and 5 municipalities. Each is an autonomous political entity, but together functioning as one city called Metro Manila (The National Capital Region of The Philippines).

Makati Skyline, Metro Manila
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http://www.condomillion.com/listings/philippines/condos/0001974/0001974-view5.jpg
http://www.realestatemovers.com/PPT-%20South%20120_2021%20resize.JPG
http://www.realestatemovers.com/PPT-%20South%20120_2017%20resize.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/kiamoy_eater/makatii.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/ncbmandy/006manilaskyline.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/ncbmandy/010manilaskyline.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/sleepwalker_uno/makati0102.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93makati-aerial_edited.jpg
http://www.fmglobalcities.org/Mapfiles/EDSA%20thru%20Makati.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/ncbmandy/019manilaskyline.jpg

Parque de Greenbelt en Metro Manila
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http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpMnlGrnbltSkyln3403.jpg
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpMnlMakatiXPan3404.jpg

Ortigas Skyline, Metro Manila
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http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93ortigas-aerial_edited.jpg
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http://www.photo.net.ph/albums/userpics/10234/ortigas_full_moon.jpg
http://www.photo.net.ph/albums/userpics/10234/moon_over_ortigas.jpg
http://www.photo.net.ph/albums/userpics/10234/makati_night.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93Ortigas_dusk.jpg

Manila Cathedaral y palacio del gobernador
http://home.tiscali.dk/loida/phils/pic/manila_cathedral.jpg

Rockwell Center, Metro Manila
http://www.geocities.com/leauparkenzoguy/makati03rockwell.jpg

Ciudad de Manila, el centro de la manila metropolis
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http://www.philskies.net/images/RATS/First%20PPL%20flights/Carlo%20birthday%202004/Luneta.jpg
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http://www.tropicalisland.de/MNL_Manila_skyline_with_Rizal_Park_and_Intramuros2_b.jpg
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Aeropuerto Internacional De Manila
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Terminal Internacional
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http://www.geocities.com/manila_naia/naia3-12.jpg

Terminal Domestico
http://www.geocities.com/manila_naia/naia2-02.jpg

Metro Manila MRTs
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impresionante de verdad que si es linda la ciudad .

Que bonita ciudad! Me encanta el Greenbelt y la Lunetta!

Que bonita ciudad! Me encanta el Greenbelt y la Lunetta!

hola j block. ¿cómo usted sabía que el nombre del otro parque es Luneta?

Greenbelt está situado en la ciudad de Makati y Luneta está situado en la ciudad de Manila. they are both pretty indeed.

Muy bonita Manila .. y muy buen Español!

gracias Juanpa. Se solamente poco español. Antes de que hablemos español en las Filipinas pero ahora lo cambian al ingles. :D I try my best to have good conversation in spanish.

Cuantas habitantes hay en Manila??

Cuantas habitantes hay en Manila??

mostly the older generation, una mas vieja generacion, el español es opcional en nuestra educacion pero el ingles es a debe e importante.

el español es nuestra lengua importante antes pero lo cambian al ingles durante los 1980's y no estamos utilizando español mas y ahora nos olvidamos de el. no somos fluent en ingles :D

12 million population 1% speaks spanish

Lindas fotos ncbmandy...!

Manila es una de mis ciudades preferidas... me encanta su desarrollo... Makati y el Ortigas Center

:cheers:

perdon my spanglish

Gracias Shafick.

hay muchos progresos en manila. Makati y Ortigas is just a part of it.

Cuantas habitantes hay en Manila??

Manila hay 12 Mio. habitantes.

:eek2: Increible ciudad!!! bellisima, no la conocia, gracias Thunderflip por mostrar fotos de Manila, fue una sorpresa para mi :colgate: Ademas que se ve muy desarrollada.

Muy bonita ciudad...gran skyline y muy buen desarrollo...

hola j block. ¿cómo usted sabía que el nombre del otro parque es Luneta?

Greenbelt está situado en la ciudad de Makati y Luneta está situado en la ciudad de Manila. they are both pretty indeed.

Hehe! It's called the Rizal Park right? I love learning about other countries, that's how I know! Someday I would like to visit Manila, It seems to be a very interesting city!

mmm....hey J Block, you urban wiz... u know anthing 'bout stockholm? ;)
Manilla is awesome btw!

Hehe! It's called the Rizal Park right? I love learning about other countries, that's how I know! Someday I would like to visit Manila, It seems to be a very interesting city!

you are correct. it is Rizal Park. you are well-informed :D

Hola ncbMandy participa mas en estos foros y algun dia abrimos un thread de filipinas en la seccion Latinoamerica....

Que importa si esta en ASIA....

it's a pity that spanish is no longer the main languange, neither second...

Beautiful city believe or not but I've been there before. Theres alot of filipinos in my neighborhood therefore my best friend is filipino. I visted there with his family back in 2001. I also understand a little tagalog. I also love filipino food especially pancit.

Hola ncbMandy participa mas en estos foros y algun dia abrimos un thread de filipinas en la seccion Latinoamerica....

Que importa si esta en ASIA....

it's a pity that spanish is no longer the main languange, neither second...

Gracias Virus.

geograficamente estamos situados en Asia pero nuestra cultura es mas latinamerican que asiatico pero el español fue cambiado al ingles como lengua importante

Beautiful city believe or not but I've been there before. Theres alot of filipinos in my neighborhood therefore my best friend is filipino. I visted there with his family back in 2001. I also understand a little tagalog. I also love filipino food especially pancit.

Kumusta Latin l0cO? If you visit here again just tell me I will cook for you different types of pancit :D

Fantásticas imágenes, Manila es una ciudad sorprendente que sin duda ocupa un lugar importante entre las grandes urbes de Oriente...

wow, sorprendente, Se ve super moderna y desarrollada, Tienes mas fotos del Aeropuerto.

mmm....hey J Block, you urban wiz... u know anthing 'bout stockholm? ;)
Manilla is awesome btw!

Mmm...let's see...Ahh, can you tell me how the suburb of Farsta looks like nowadays? It's my understanding that it was a very attractive and carefully planned suburb back in the 1960's. :)

Quiero contribuir en este foro tambien. Soy filipino, naci en la ciudad de Iloilo
(la ultima capital de España aqui en Filipinas). Mis antepasados eran españoles, soy de la sexta generacion.

Esta es la catedral de Santo Tomas de Villanueva en el pueblo Miagao, Provincia de Iloilo, Panay (erigido 1768)
http://montinola.org/pics/skyscrapers/miagao_church.jpg

La iglesia de San Sebastian, erigido 1876 (Ciudad de Bacolod, Negros Occidental)
http://montinola.org/pics/skyscrapers/san_sebastian2.jpg

Descendientes de los españoles continuan sus negocios (Silay, Negros Occidental)
http://montinola.org/pics/skyscrapers/hacenderos.jpg

Metro Manila Skyway
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/h.jpg

Makati Financial District
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/makati%20city.jpg
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/IMG_1595e.jpg

Manila Baywalk
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/f8f8fdf5.jpg
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/walk.jpg

New Manila International Airport Terminal
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/ninoy1_498.jpg
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/ninoy3_498.jpg
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Manila Light Rail
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/station.jpg
http://www.zamboangacity.com/zamboangacity_gallery/images/rail.jpg

Wow, Manila!....Very nice surprise!....In some of these pics, it kinda reminds me of Miami!

:okay:

http://www.montinola.org/pics/skyscrapers/makati.jpg
El distrito de Makati (originalmente era un pueblo con el nombre, San Pedro de Macati).

El skyline es muy bueno, y la mayoría de los lugares mostrados mucho muy agradables. :)

Very, very nice surprising Manila, some pics remind you of any big city in the first World! even as an air of Miami.... . Muy lindas las fotos, bastante grande la ciudad. The Philipino colony in this part of the USA is very big and very prosperous, I know that. Felicitaciones y que sigan prosperando. We need a LatinAmerican-Philipino association, that way we can help each other, with Spanish Language teaching, Immigrantion issues and many other common problems that both communities face. :cheers: Just a joke: "not all the money went to buy Imelda's shoes!!" (Todo el dinero al menos no fué para comprar los zapatos de Imelda) Salud amigos Filipinos!.

hola j block. ¿cómo usted sabía que el nombre del otro parque es Luneta?

Greenbelt está situado en la ciudad de Makati y Luneta está situado en la ciudad de Manila. they are both pretty indeed.


sorprendente :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

Se vé una ciudad bastante interesante y y muy fotogenica por lo que veo!!!! :)

La ciudad tiene un skyline muy bueno. Pero al igual que Bangkok y otras ciudades de esa region, parece que el clima es muy humedo y caluroso.

Lo mismo que en la India, donde dicen que el calor es insoportable en algunas areas.

La arquitectura colonial de Manila tambien esta muy chevere.

La ciudad tiene un skyline muy bueno. Pero al igual que Bangkok y otras ciudades de esa region, parece que el clima es muy humedo y caluroso.

Lo mismo que en la India, donde dicen que el calor es insoportable en algunas areas.

La arquitectura colonial de Manila tambien esta muy chevere.

This is because we are in a temperate region. But the heat in metro manila is bearable unlike in India where it reaches 40'C, in Manila it only ranges from 25'C to 33'C. And you can do an island hopping and visit our thousands of beautifull beaches that scattered throughout the Philippine Archipelago.

wow! está bellisima la ciudad, se ve muy desarrollada, moderna y ordenada.
Nunca pensé que Manila era asi. Me encantó el skyline!!!!

esta increiblemente estupenda esa ciudad muy moderna y limpia se ve.
pero no entiendo porque dejaron a un lado el espanol, sera por racismo?
bueno pues aqui en USA viven 42 millones de hispanos el 14% de la poblacion, y en Filipinas yo pense que era un 7% me imaginaba pero 1%.

esta increiblemente estupenda esa ciudad muy moderna y limpia se ve. pero no entiendo porque dejaron a un lado el espanol, sera por racismo? bueno pues aqui en USA viven 42 millones de hispanos el 14% de la poblacion, y en Filipinas yo pense que era un 7% me imaginaba pero 1%.

No era por racismo Alex.

Cuando Filipinas ganó su independencia de España en 1898, el idioma nacional era español. Tambien nuestro himno nacional, la constitución del la Primera Republica Filipina abajo del Supremo Emilio Aguinaldo era en español, nuestro sistema de educación, el comercio, las leyes, los cortes y nuestros periódicos.

Pero perdimos la guerra contra Estados Unidos. El proceso o desarollo del idioma español era afectado o cortado. En vez de español, el íngles era enseñado en las escuelas. Se puede imaginarse que la generación española pasaron y la nueva generación son educados en íngles.

Factores:
-La guerra de Filipinas contra Estados Unidos 1898-1903 donde un millón de Filipinos murieron (nativos y mestizos, muchos eran hispanohablantes)
-El mestizaje no es mucho como las otras ex-colonias de España como Mexico. Aunque hay países en latinoamérica que tienen mas indigenas que mestizos, no hay gran factor de recolonización como en Filipinas por Estados Unidos que cambiaron el sistema de educacion y sobre todo la influencia usense a los Filipinos.
-La Segunda Guerra Mundial, más mestizos (y peninsulares e insulares) que conservan el idioma murieron en la guerra, especialmente el bombardeo y la masacre de Manila e Intramuros donde 100,000 murieron en la liberación de la ciudad. Intramuros es un distrito de Manila donde la mayoria de la poblacion eran españoles que tienen negocios (peninsulares), criollos filipinos (insulares) y mestizos. Despues de la guerra, muchos de ellos decidieron a repatriar a España.

Hayan familias que todavía conservan el español pero no son muchos. Las lenguas nativas especialmente el Tagalo/Pilipino ahora es el idioma nacional. La segunda lengua depende de la region, una persona de La Unión habla Ilocano, una persona de Cebu habla cebuano o bisaya, la gente de la ciudad de Iloilo habla Ilonggo. La tercera lengua es íngles.

siempre he admirado las filipinas me encanta Manila me parece una ciudad hermosa y muy moderna,. tengo varios amigos que son de alla y casi todos tienen apellidos españoles como Garces, diaz, y pizarro

Manila me gusta mucho...ahi pasaron muchas cosas en mi libro favorito...y se me ahce del putas imaginarme la ciudad leyendo. jejeje :cheers:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid108/p48f62d3f70c192e4a796d90cd2a47f5c/f93fa954.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/imagesaver1206/view%20from%20antipolo/antipolopano2.jpg

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que triste que las filipinas y latinoamerica no estan tan cercanas como deverian, asi hasta depronto se podria conservar el español en las filipinas y se tendrian mejores relaciones con paises latinos:)

que triste que las filipinas y latinoamerica no estan tan cercanas como deverian, asi hasta depronto se podria conservar el español en las filipinas y se tendrian mejores relaciones con paises latinos:)

Hay espera todavía como español es ahora reconoce mucho como un idioma importante en el mundo. :)

Tengo dos buenos amigos Filipinos, gente muy linda :)... Ademas que hermosa ciudad, y que desarrollo tan imponente, se nota que le van siguiendo los pasos bastante de cerca a Kuala Lumpur y Bangok!... Y hasta se ve bastante mas adelantada que Jakarta...

Tengo dos buenos amigos Filipinos, gente muy linda :)... Ademas que hermosa ciudad, y que desarrollo tan imponente, se nota que le van siguiendo los pasos bastante de cerca a Kuala Lumpur y Bangok!... Y hasta se ve bastante mas adelantada que Jakarta...

¡Eso es grande que usted tiene amigos Filipinos!

Manila Intramuros banners

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Manila intramuros restored building & cathedral

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Restored wood and stone Hispanic style building in Intramuros, Manila's walled city. On the left is Manila Cathedral

Despite war damage, it's not difficult to imagine how Intramuros must have looked during the Spanish era.

Manila Intramuros religious picture & shrine

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Religious picture and shrine on the side of a street in Intramuros, Manila's walled city.

Manila Intramuros derelict building

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Derelict building inside Intramuros, the old walled city of Manila.

Intramuros was very badly damaged in World War 2 and has been partially reconstructed.

Manila Intramuros facade

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Traditional facade in Manila's old walled city named Intramuros, literally 'inside the walls'.

Intramuros has been quite well restored, but it will never again look how it did before the outbreak of World War 2.

Manila Intramuros St Augustine's Church facade

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpMnlIntrStAugCch3409.jpg

Manila Cathedral

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Spanish style church in Intramuros, the old town of Manila first founded by the Spanish in the 16th century.

Corregidor Philippines and United States flags with cannon

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpCorregBrks2Flags4430.jpg

Manila Fort Bonifacio entrance carvings

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Manila University of Santo Tomas flower

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Philippines Corregidor staff car of General Douglas McArthur

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The car used by General Douglas McArthur during his tour of duty in the Philippines has ben set up as a museumpiece on the island of Corregidor, now a major visitor destination in the Philippines

The car which carried General McArthur all around the Philippines has now found its final resting place next to the remains of what was once the cinema in the American barracks.

Philippines Corregidor Island: Japanese statue

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Japanese-style Shinto statue at the Japanese memorial on the island of Corregidor, Philippines. The representation of a mother and three children commemorates the Japanese soldiers who died in action on the island of Corregidor during World War II.

Corredigor island is one of the most potent and memorable war-related historical sites in the world.

Philippines Manila City Hall Tower

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View of the tower of Manila City Hall from Intramuros, the old walled city, looking over an old canon.

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The clock tower of Manila City Hall (built 1939) as seen from the east side of Intramuros, the walled city of Manila.

Manila City Hall is one of the best known symbols of Manila, but is not so well known around the world.

Philippines Corregidor Island: Ruins of Topside Barracks

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpCorregTopsdBrksDr4331.jpg

During the early 20th century a large number of American soldiers were based on Corregidor, the tiny but strategically important island which stands at the entrance to Manila Bay. After invasion by Japan in 1941, the island was re-taken by the Americans in 1944. Most of the buildings were severely damaged in the conflict and have been left as a memorial to war.

Find out more about Corregidor on the website of the Corregidor Historic Society http:// ***************

The abandoned US barracks on Corregidor Island are a potent reminder of the military presence of America in the Philippines, and of the destructiveness of war.

Manila UP Church of the Holy Sacrifice traditional chapel

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpUpCchTradChapel3424.jpg

Within the futuristic Church of the Holy Sacrifice is a chapel which features a traditional style bamboo interior and a portrait of the Madonna and child in a setting of the Philippines.

The Philippines is a striking combination of Spanish-style religious devotion with the crafts and traditions of south east Asia.

Manila University of Santo Tomas bird girl statue

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Sculpture of a winged female figure, part of a fountain in the garden at Manila University of Santo Tomas.

The architecture and character of this university built in the 19th century under Spanish rule has a very strong hispanic character.

Manila University of Santo Tomas Statue and Tower

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Statue outside the main building of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. UST was founded in 1611 when the Philippines was part of the Spanish empire.

Manila University of Santo Tomas statue and clock

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This statue stands outside the main building of the University of Santo Tomas in downtown Manila. The university was founded in 1611 when the Philippines was under Spanish rule. These buildings date from the 19th century.

Like many heritage locations in the Philippines, the UST campus is a remarkable mixture of Spanish-style architecture in a tropical south east Asian setting.

Manila UST old hospital facade

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/PlpMnlUstHospOldFacade3403.jpg

Hispanic style facade and entrance to University of Santo Tomas. The facade is painted pastel pink and white and dates from the 19th century.

In certain parts of Asia you get a kind of 'environmental disorientation' - Looking at the buildings you think you're in Spain or Latin America but actually you're on the other side of the world.

Manila statue of Jose Rizal in Rizal Park

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Nighttime view of the floodlit statue of national hero Jose Rizal, situated in Rizal Park in downtown Manila.

Manila University of Santo Tomas main building and trees

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Looking up the tree-lined central pathway leading to the main building of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.

The historic UST campus is, I believe, a source of pride for UST graduates. For comparison, take a look at the campus of Trinity College Dublin (http://www.aidan.co.uk/search_results.php?keyword=TCD) where I studied Modern Languages (German and French) from 1976 to 1981.

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View of Manila City Hall from the east side of Intramuros, the old walled city. We are looking over the landscaped gardens.

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Cityscape of Metro Manila seen from the south over waste ground. Two lone figures at the bottom of the image give a sense of scale. Viewpoint is from a flyover on C5 the circumferential road to the south of the city.

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The high rise apartment and commercial buildings of Makati are seen from the Greenbelt shopping mall with its attractive gardens. Makati is one of the districts of Metro Manila and is important as a centre for commerce and finance.

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Manila has many skyscrapers, including these two. The one on the right, overlooking the waterfront, is still under construction.

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The skyline of Makati is seen from one of the bridges over the Pasig River close to the centre of Manila. A barge makes its way from left to right.

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Looking from the south Skyway, two tall apartment towers rise up above the tree line. On the right is a water tower. Electricity cables lead off to the left.

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Cityscape of Makati, part of Metro Manila, seen from a car on the Skyway to the south of Manila.

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View of the skyline of Metro Manila from an elevated viewpoint near the junction of EDSA and the South Superhighway.

Manila has many similarities with Los Angeles - A Spanish-influenced old town, communities and districts spread out over a wide flat area, contrast between run-down residential areas and futuristic skyscrapers.

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View along the Pasig river in Metro Manila. Two high rise apartment blocks contrast with shanty dwellings on the opposite bank of the river.

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View of the skyline of Makati, one of the districts of Metro Manila, seen from the first floor of the Greenbelt shopping mall.

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The original old town of Manila, founded in the 16th century, was built next to the Pasig River. This is the view from Fort Santiago at the northern end of the Intramuros District.

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The large apartment building in Luneta next to Rizal Park rises up above a disused Frency style hotel facade.

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Rising up into a pink dusk sky, an archetypal cityscape of part of Metro Manila rises up beyond lush green palm trees and overhead electricity cables.

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Zoom view of the upper sections of three skyscrapers in the upmarket district of Makati. The one on the right houses the offices of ABN Amro bank. The middle one is a residential tower.

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Tall buildings in the affluent district of Makati, part of Metro Manila, as seen from Greenbelt Shopping Mall.

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The Manila Intercontinental Hotel seen from the nearby shopping centre.

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Más fotos: Iglesias Filipinas en Mexico vs. Metro Manila Churches and Architecture (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=281528&page=1&pp=20)

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One of Metro Manila CBD (Makati CBD)
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thanks for reviving my thread animo.

No cabe duda que el desarrollo de las ciudades del sudeste de Asia es impresionante y nunca pense que Manila fuera asi como en las fotos.

Estan muy bonitas las fotos (ncbmandy) y te felicito por mantener el espanol.

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San Agustin Church turned four hundred years old last November 13, 2004. Made of hewn stone from the quarries of Guadalupe, Meycauayan and San Mateo, the church was completed in 1604. A testimony of Antonio de Morga written in 1604 is proof that it is the oldest stone church in the Philippines.

The church is also a museum with the numerous priceless paintings, wall murals, furniture, intricate ironworks, statues in wood and ivory, religious relics and icons, books, vestments, gold and silver, earthenware jars and artifacts that have been collected during the past four hundred years. It is a treasure of European, Oriental and other popular inspirations of art forms from all parts of the world. Some of these objects are still being used while the rest are memorabilia on display.

The grandeur of the past is very well preserved. The ceiling and walls with painted masonry, done in 1875 by two Italian artists are still in their original forms. Likewise, the same 18th century chandeliers still enhance and light up the church.

Six chapels line up on each side of the walls, each in their own baroque opulence, adorned differently depending on who the patron or patroness is. These chapels were once sold to prominent families as their final resting place.

One of the present sacristies is a chapel dedicated to Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the founder of Spanish Manila and a good friend of the friars. It also bears his remains.

Every year, under the leadership of Father Galende, the Agustinian fathers host an international music festival. This prestigious event is held at the choir loft which is a fascinating place with its very old pipe organ made in 1814. A massive lectern carrying a huge choirbook is in the middle of the room and sixty-eight choir stalls intricately carved with narra inlay line along the walls.

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San Sebastian Church is a magnificent towering all-iron structure, fit to be a center of God’s influence. The Order of the Agustinian Recollect (OAR) Parishes Manual cited that “it is the first all-iron church in the world, the first iron edifice in Asia and the second in the world after Eiffle Tower.”

Three earthquakes – on November 30, 1645, on June 3, 1863 and on July 14, 1880 – totally destroyed the imposing stone churches that the Agustinian Recollects built after each earthquake. After the third earthquake, the Recollects dreamed of building a steel church to withstand the forces of nature.

The dream became a reality in 1886 when the contract to build a steel church was awarded to a Belgian construction firm.

Eight ships brought to Manila a total of 1,527 tons of steel parts and glass artwork that were prefabricated in Belgium. Filipino craftsmen and artists joined the Belgian firm in putting the pieces together like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. The dream of the Agustinian Recollects was taking shape.

On June 24, 1890, while in the midst of construction, the church of San Sebastian was raised into the status of minor basilica and later became a national historical landmark in the Philippines. It was finally inaugurated on August 15, 1891.

The Recollects dedicated the church to San Sebastian, a Roman martyr whose feast day falls on every 20th of January. This is in honor of Don Bernardino del Castillo Maldonado y Rivera, a generous donor of the Recollects whose special devotion to the martyr was widely known. In fact, the church stands now on the land that was once the ‘Calumpang Estate’ of the Don.

The Recollects brought the image of their patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in 1618 through Father Rodrigo de San Miguel. It was a gift from the Discalced Carmelite nuns of San Jose Monastery in Mexico City. The image survived the three earthquakes that destroyed the church and is now enshrined at the main altar. Her feast day is celebrated every 16th of July.

Today, San Sebastian is a popular venue for weddings because of its remarkable qualities. It is also a haven for architecture and fine arts students as well as professionals who make it an inspiration for their art works or school paper.

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El Centro de Estudios Interculturales de la Universidad de Santo Tomás

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El Centro de Estudios Interculturales (Centre for Intercultural Studies) es el departamento de investigación en Humanidades de la Universidad de Santo Tomás.

Este centro ofrece programas a los miembros de las facultades de Arquitectura, Bellas Artes y Diseño, Artes y Letras, así como del Conservatorio de Música, que deseen investigar sobre aspectos culturales como la formación y el desarrollo de prácticas artísticas en la historia del país desde los años anteriores a la colonización en Filipinas.

El Centro de Recursos ha publicado el libro titulado Discursos culturales en música, literatura, arquitectura y bellas artes, que recoge las siguientes investigaciones: «Los puentes en el tiempo de la Colonización Hispánica», «El ferrocarril», «La curia de la Iglesia de Baclayon en 1826», «Los dibujos de los muebles durante la colonización de Estados Unidos», «El nacionalismo en las películas», «La biografía de los pintores filipinos (Cenon Rivera y Ang Kiokok)», «La biografía del escultor Francesco Monti», «Los escritos de las órdenes religiosas sobre la Revolución», «Los chinos en la historia cultural de Filipinas», «Arquitectura de los edificios públicos en los años de la colonización de Estados Unidos», etc.

El Centro tiene relaciones con agencias culturales de los países de Sudamérica y del gobierno de España. El Instituto Cervantes y otras agencias contribuyen a la investigación sobre la vida cultural en las Islas Filipinas durante el tiempo de la colonización de España.

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Intramuros, un símbolo histórico

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¡Bienvenidos a la capital vieja de Filipinas!

Intramuros fue construido en 1571 por los españoles durante la colonización de Filipinas. Está ubicado a lo largo de la orilla del sur del río Pasig y es el más viejo de los distritos de Manila, la capital de Filipinas. Durante la época española, todo Manila estaba contenido en Intramuros.

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Estan muy bonitas esas ultimas fotos.

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Located on El Fraile island off the shore of Manila Bay, it was more known to Americans and Filipino soldiers as the Island Battleship. Ít was part of the War Plan Orange, where 4 islands were to be fortified to defend Manila. Corregidor was the largest of these islands, and El Fraile was the smallest and the most unique. It took 11 years to complete, from 1909 to 1919.

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It surrendered in 1942 to the Japanese army but remains to this day as the only unsinkable battleship in the world.

It used to look like this:

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Minor Basilica de San Lorenzo Ruiz (Binondo Church) - "Old Chinatown"

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Some of the Shopping Centers In Metro Manila

*Metro Manila*

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Araneta Gateway Mall (with IMAX)
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Glorietta Mall
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Alabang Town Center
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Metro Market Market
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Eastwood Citywalk
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SM Megamall
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SM Mall of Asia (Opening on Feb. 2006) (with IMAX)
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SM City North EDSA
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SM City Sta. Mesa
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SM City Fairview
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SM City Manila
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SM City Bicutan
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A view from Pasig River photo by Sir Dudz

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Warning: This thread need a Broadband Connection. Dial Up Users beware :D

Photos by Dudz

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Ocean tower, Roxas boulevard, Malate, Manila

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Harbor plaza, Manila

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Ocean tower, Roxas boulevard, Malate, Manila

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Harbor plaza, Manila

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Known as the “city of 10 churches,” Intramuros is a walled city crowned by the spires and domes of its spiritual abodes. Brightest among its jewels is one grand design and fertile history: the San Agustin Church.

The Augustinian fathers built the San Agustin Church, a temporary structure of bamboo and thatch, in 1570. Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, the founder of Manila, donated its lot. Fire ruined the Church in 1574 and 1583.

The techniques of stonecutting and lime and sand mixing paved way for the construction of a new Church. In 1586 the Augustinian fathers approved designs for a Church to be made of stone hewn from Guadalupe, Meycauayan and San Mateo quarries. The construction took place the next year.

Historian Antonio de Morga writes, “Here in Manila is the monastery of Saint Augustine, very huge with many dormitories.” When it was completed in 1604, San Agustin measured 67.15 meters long and 24.93 meters wide.

Within Intramuros stands Manila's oldest stone church, San Agustin, which was completed in 1606 and has since survived the ravages of time and successive invasions. Completed in 1606, it is one of the four Baroque churches inscribed in the World Heritage List.

Exterior:

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The inside of the San Agustin Church in Intramuros, with magnificent trompe l'oeil mural on its ceiling and walls;The main altar of the church.

The San Sebastian Church is the only Gothic church ever built in the Philippines - or perhaps, in the whole of Asia. Also, the San Sebastian Church is the only steel church in Asia built in the late 18th century.

GUSTAVE EIFFEL’S CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES

Alexander Gustave Eiffel was the only man in Europe famous not only for the defining symbol of the Eiffel Tower but also for exporting knockdown steel churches in Latin America. He was a great engineer who also designed bridges, transported to their sites piece by piece, and assembled it like a Lego set. Eiffel was also the one who designed the metal structure of the Statue of Liberty.

The Order of the Agustinian Recollect (OAR) Parishes Manual cited that the San Sebastian church “is the first all-iron church in the world, the first iron edifice in Asia and the second in the world after Eiffle Tower.” It has its beginnings in 1621 when Don Bernardino Castillo, a generous patron and a well-known devotee of San Sebastian donated his lot for the dream of having a steel church in Asia become a reality. The original church, which was made of wood, was burned in 1651 during a Chinese uprising. The succeeding structures were destroyed by fire and an earthquake in 1859, 1863, and, 1880 destroyed the imposing stone of the church. The exasperated parish priest, Fr. Esteban Martinez approached the Spanish Architect Genero Palacios with a plan to build a fire and earthquake-resistant church made entirely of steel. Ambeth Ocampo states that the present San Sebastian church was ordered knockdown in steel parts from the “Societe Anonime des Enterprises de Travaux Publiques in Brussels, Belgium. The Societe cast all the parts and shipped them piece by piece to Manila, (as what Eiffel did in most of his designs). Two Belgian engineers supervised the construction of the church which was later completed and inaugurated in 1891.

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Interior:

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Manila Cathedral

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San Lorenzo Church

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Carriedo Plaza

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Bonifacio marker

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San Agustin Church

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Fort Santiago Fountain

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Manila Cathedral

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Calesa

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Bamboo

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Fort Santiago

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Museum

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Casa Manila

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Casa Manila

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Casa Manila

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Casa Manila

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Capiz Windows

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Casa Manila

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Dungeon

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Dungeon

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Dungeon

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Dungeon

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Guard Post

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Casa Manila

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Baluarte de San Diego

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San Diego Garden

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San Diego Garden

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San Diego Garden

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San Diego Garden

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San Agustin Garden

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Fort Santiago Gate

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Fort Santiago Gate

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Stone and Wood

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Intramuros Gate

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Intramuros Gate

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Gate

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Miguel Lopez de Legazpi - Spanish founder of Manila

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The walls of Manila determined its growth, marking a dividing line between the outside and the interior. This interior is known as Intramuros.

The relative importance given by the authorities to Intramuros, in relation to the rest of the city, was influential in the history of the formation and the development of Manila . Although the perimeter of Intramuros was irregular, that did not prevent the organization of the city from being in agreement with the model used by the Spaniards in the New World: parallel and perpendicular straight streets that are crossed to form a gridiron. The resulting square or rectangular blocks; are divided as well, first in four lots, soon in more, always with fronts to the streets; the houses constructed in line with the street.

The cathedral occupies an prominent place in the central plaza ; the City Hall, is also constructed in the plaza.

Fires and earthquakes level the city. Intramuros, and all Manila, rises time and time again on its ruins. Its primitive layout remains. The wall limits the interior population, that never gets to be very dense : in the middle of the 17th century it contained something more than two thousand inhabitants. In second half of the 18th century, the increasing growth of the suburbs suspends the population of Intramuros. Manila becomes much more that Intramuros .

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Seat of St. Francis in Manila. Fernando Brambila. Collection of drawings and engravings of the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN With their arrival to Manila in 1577, the Franciscans began with construction of wood and cane churches that succumbed to natural catastrophes. In 1739 they constructed a stone church that was financed by the public charity and became one of richest in Intramuros.

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Plan of the City of Manila. Antonio Giménez. Signed by governing general military Jaudenes. 1898. SGE At the end of 19th century the urban structure of Manila was completed. The original defensive configuration stayed invariable during the Spanish time, and it is conserved at the present time.

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Manila Intramuros. Antonio Giménez. 1851. SHM When becoming independent of Mexico, the Philippines happens to depend directly on the metropolis. From her the overseas ministry begins to undertake a series of infrastructure works that make of Manila a modern city, "most European" of Asia.

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The city in 1783. AGI the history of Manila was plagued by earthquakes, fires and natural accidents of diverse nature, that forced successive reconstructions and served their constructors to carry out a better material preparation.

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Manila Intramuros. 1839. L.A. Garci'a. SHM During the 19th century to crystallize in Manila a peculiar and polished domestic architecture fruit of the mestization of colonial types that are adapted to the local conditions and to the appearance of a bourgeoisie that is developed at a time of freedom of commerce and greater facility in the communications.

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Plan of the fortified enclosure of Manila. Tomás Sanz. 1785. AGI the natural conditions facilitated the fortification of the urban enclosure, that by the side of the river counted on a natural pit and by the other it only could be attacked by sea. The only soft spot was the inner part, where the natural defense was the marshy character it of the land.

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Plan of the city of Manila 1762. AGI In 1762 the city of Manila was surrounded by the English and the 5 of October it surrendered after a siege. This occupation lasted until the 31 of May of 1763, after the treaty of peace signed in Paris the 10 of February of that same year.
City of Manila. Tomás Sanz. 1784. SHM the plan of the city of simple grid was not difficult to him to make the own soldiers who although did not understand of city-planning technique, this form facilitated the division and the distribution to them in lots.]

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City of Manila. Tomás Sanz. 1784. SHM the plan of the city of simple grid was not difficult to him to make the own soldiers who although did not understand of city-planning technique, this form facilitated the division and the distribution to them in lots.

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Intramuros of Manila, with the location of the most excellent buildings. Carlos Kings. 1895. SHM In the interior of the fortified enclosure, the layout of the streets followed the usual model of the checkerboard, in lines that extended from the central plaza, where were the main buildings of the Spanish dominion.

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The city and its suburbs. 18th Century. SHM In 17th century begins a process of growth and expansion of the towns near Manila, that consolidates in the two following centuries until being turned districts of the capital.

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Plan of Manila where the religious buildings are specified. 19th Century SHM the religious factor was not the only influence of the colonization, but one of the determinants of the urban layout, as it demonstrates the abundance of churches, convents and schools in the interior of the walled enclosure.

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Shells are exhibited inside Fort Santiago, Intramuros de Manila. These are actually shells from world war II in commemoration of the Battle of Manila in 1945.

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Manila Cathedral

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Starbucks, Intramuros de Manila. These were actually used as prison cells during spanish, american and japanese times.

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Panorama from my hotel room
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Regular Manila
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Ortigas Center
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Hmm, Starbucks & McDonalds, are we really in Asia?
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Makati
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And from a rooftop restaurant
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muy lind a la ciudad tiene buen skyline y se mira muy moderna

Manila Post Office Building
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Metro Manila - Makati CBD

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Amazing, I like it!!! You should also pic more photos of the colonial downtwons and towns in order to see the similarities with ours. A question: Is Philippines consider an asian tigger?

Amazing, I like it!!! You should also pic more photos of the colonial downtwons and towns in order to see the similarities with ours. A question: Is Philippines consider an asian tigger?

nope we are just an Asian Cub. Our economy is smaller compare to Asian Tigers (Japan, China, Korea, HK, Taiwan, Singapore). We are the next roaring tiger together with Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. We are the 2nd tier asian tiger.

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Iglesia de San Ignacio antes de la Guera
La iglesia de San Ignacio y el convento de las jesuitas antes de su destrucción.

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Ruinas de la Iglesia de San Ignacio
Ruinas de la Iglesia de San Ignacio en la actualidad

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Plaza España en la actualidad
Plaza España en la actualidad con la estatua de Rey Felipe II en el centro.

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Postal de la Aduana ca. 1901
Postal de la Aduana antes de la demolición por los norteamericanos de la sección de la muralla en la orilla del rio Pasig para construir el embarcadero en 1904.

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La Aduana desde Plaza España
La Aduana sobrevivió la destrucción durante la guerra, pero no la negligencia del gobierno filipino.

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Plano del Ayuntamiento de Manila
Plano del Ayuntamiento de Manila-la principal edificio oficial durante la dominación de España y EE.UU.


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El Ayuntamiento Antes de la Guerra
El ayuntamiento durante la dominación EE.UU.


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Ruinas del Ayuntamiento
El Ayuntamiento en Plaza Roma al lado del catedral todavia está en ruinas mas de 60 años despues de la guerra.

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Otra Foto de las Ruinas del Ayuntamiento
Otra foto de las ruinas del ayuntamiento en la actualidad.

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Plaza Mexico en la actualidad
Plaza Mexico en la actualidad conmemora el 400 anniversario de la expedición de Legazpi y Urdaneta desde Mexico.

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Fuerte Santiago
La entrada a la Fuerte Santiago antes de la segunda guerra mundial.

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Fuerte Santiago
Entrada a la Fuerte Santiago en la actualidad.

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Plaza Armas en Fuerte Santiago
Plaza Armas en Fuerte Santiago en la actualidad.

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Plaza Moriones--2005
Plaza Moriones dentro de la Fuerte Santiago en actualidad.

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Postal del Puerta Real Antes de la Guera
Postal del Puerta Real antes de la segunda guerra mundial

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Puerto Real en la actualidad
El Puerto Real en la actualidad. Ahora el Puerto Real es un escenerio popular para conciertos y acontecimientos especiales.

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Plaza Mayor de Intramuros ca. 1790
El Plaza Mayor de Intramuros circa 1790 (ahora se llama Plaza Roma). Desde un dibujo de Fernando Bramibila (expedición Malaspina).

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El Plaza Mayor ahora (2005)
El Plaza Mayor, ahora se llama Plaza Roma en honor del apoyo de la ciudad Vaticana para la restauración de la catedral en 1957.

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Vista desde la bahia de Manila 1818
Vista de Intramuros desde la bahia de Manila, 1818.

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Vista Antes de la Guerra
Vista de Intramuros desde el Manila Hotel antes de su destrucción durante la segunda guerra mundial.

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Vista desde Manila Hotel-2005
Vista desde Manila Hotel en la actualidad. Los rascacielos en el fondo estan el otro lado del rio Pasig en el barrio de Binondo.

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Vista desde Manila Hotel 2005
Otra vista desde el Manila Hotel en la actualidad.

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Vista de Intramuros 2005
Vista de Intramuros desde el nuevo ayuntamiento de Manila.

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Destrucción Despues de la Guerra
Vista de la destrucción despues de la batalla de Manila. Solamente la Aduana en la esquina inferior derecha escapó con poco daño.

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El Calle Mayor de Intramuros, Calle Real
El calle mayor de Intramuros, Calle Real, antes de la segunda guerra mundial

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Calle Real en la actualidad
Casas reconstruidas en la Calle Real en la actualidad.

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Calle Real en la actualidad
Otra foto del Calle Real en la actualidad.

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Casas Restauradas en Calle General Luna
Casas restauradas en Calle General Luna en la actualidad.

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Casa Restaurada en Calle General Luna
Casa restaurada en Calle General Luna. El Calle General Luna es el mas restaurada en Intramuros.

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Casa Restaurada en Estilo Filhispano
Casa restaurada en el unico estilo Hispano-Filipino. Casa tipica durante la dominción de España. El primer piso es de piedra y el segundo es de madera.

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Casa Restaurada-el Restaurante Barbara's
Una casa restaurada en Calle General Luna. Ahora sirve como el restaurante Barbara's.

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Fachada del Museo Casa Manila
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Patio de la Casa Manila
Patio de la Casa Manila en la actualidad

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Casa Restaurada en Calle Cabildo
Casa restaurada en Calle Cabildo

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Hotel Intramuros
El Hotel Intramuros de Manila en la actualidad.

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Iglesia de San Agustin circa 1890
La iglesia de San Agustin en 1890.

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Iglesia de San Agustin en Actualidad
El mas antigua iglesia en Filipinas y el unico iglesia que sobrevivió la destrucción durante la segunda guerra mundial.

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Monasterio de San Agustin en Actualidad
Monasterio de San Agustin en la actualidad

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Iglesia de Sto. Domingo ca. 1907
La iglesia de Santo Domingo (estilo gotico) en la Plaza España antes de la destrucción.

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Plaza España Despues de Destrucción
Plaza España despues de la destrucción. Las ruinas de la iglesia de Santo Domingo es en la izquierda.

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Vista del Restaurado Beaterio
Vista de la muralla y el restaurado Beaterio de Compañia de Jesús, la ubicación del Museo "Sound and Light" de Intramuros.

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Plaza de Sta. Isabel
La estatua conmemora los muertos de más de cien mil residentes de Manila durante la batalla de Manila en 1945.

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Amazing, I like it!!! You should also pic more photos of the colonial downtwons and towns in order to see the similarities with ours.

Visite estos hilos para más fotos: :)

Ciudad Murada: Intramuros de Manila

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=7918406#post7918406

Ciudad de Vigan: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=7907203#post7907203

Vigan es una de las ciudades mas antiguas de Filipinas. El primer asentamiento español de Vigan se llamó Ciudad Fernandina. Se llamó Nueva Segovia al trasladarse aquí la sede de la diócesis del mismo nombre desde Lal-Lo en el Valle de Cagayán en el siglo XVIII. Vigan fué un importante centro político, militar, cultural y religioso. Todavía quedan calles de adoquines entre unas doce manzanas de casonas del estilo colonial peculiar del pais.

De arquitectura común, estas casonas tienen bajos de piedra o ladrillo con patio interior de vegetación abundante, algunos con pozo, y escalera monumental interior de madera noble. Los segundos pisos son casi siempre de madera, a veces piedra. Al piso bajo se accede por un portón y se usa como almacén y cochera de carros; no tiene ventanas. El piso alto abre al exterior con ventanas deslizantes de armazón de madera encuadrando pequeñas piezas de "capiz", una lapa tropical translucida. Vagn: calle 2Los tejados fueron en tiempo de "cogon", una hierba tropical alta y muy robusta que no parece valer mas que para tejados. Hoy la mayoría de los tejados son de lata, muy común en toda Filipinas. Muchas de estas casonas son todavía viviendas familiares, unas cuantas estan convertidas en tiendas turísticas y oficinas, y algunas familias de abolengo han establecido museos de interés local en las suyas.

En las calles de este entorno no se permiten coches, solo carretelas de caballo para dos personas, una especie de cabriolé de ruedas de madera a radios con llantas de hierro. Las casonas bien cuidadas, los peatones sin prisas y el tráfico de carretelas crean un ambiente agradable de viejo mundo que no es común en otros sitios de Filipinas.

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Calle Real

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Photos by Maestro Dudz

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Plaza Rajah Sulayman and Malate Church

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Manila Central Post Office

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Pasig River, Manila

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Plaza Santa Cruz

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Chinatown, Manila

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Malacañang

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Madre Filipinas

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Carabao

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Rizal Park

Intramuros was one of the places I couldn’t remember not knowing, any more than I could remember a time when I didn’t know Calle Herran in Paco, where we lived, or the fields and riverbanks of San Pedro Makati (Sanpiro for short), the very rustic countryside where childhood weekends and summers were spent.

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A calesa crossing Parian Bridge to enter the Walled City, 1940.

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There are places you feel you were born knowing because, however far back you throw memory, there they already are, already familiar.

With Intramuros, the problem is to distinguish the three layers of memory that, emotionally, conjure up for me three different places. There is the Intramuros remembered from childhood; the Intramuros seen again, and with a colder eye, in early adolescence, after a provincial exile; and the Intramuros rediscovered just in time, before it vanished for ever.

Intramuros is thus, for me, a place within a place- as in those Chinese boxes that always have another box inside another.

And I see now how aptly the old days referred to it as “sa loob ng Maynila.” Was Papa up early poring through his law codigos? He had a court hearing sa loob ng Maynila. Was the streetcar full of girls in uniform dragging bags of books? They were on their way to the Colegio de Santa Catalina, or Santa Rosa, or Santa Isabel sa loob ng Maynila. Were the boys steeping out in the evening in gala black suits and boots? There was a festive velada sa loob ng Maynila. Was the October dawn lively with whole families trooping out before daylight? They were trying to escape the holiday crowds by hearing Mass early at San Domingo sa loob ng Maynila.

And from childhood no amount of familiarity could dull for me the mysterious wondrousness of Intramuros as the very vitals, the hid heart, the secret soul of my city. Every going into it was a penetration- and in there, for a Manileño, it was always like coming home. He was back to his original, essential, eternal island.

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He was back to roots. Sa loob ng Maynila.

Riding through what gates of Intramuros were still tunnels- Parian and Sta. Lucia- we would open our mouths wide and howl and would hear the tunnel giving us back our roaring multiplied, as if not three or four but a hundred children were howling.

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Puerta Parian, 1899.

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Puerta Santa Lucia, ca. 1900.

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Even weirder was the effect, as you roared, you beat a palm against your mouth: the echoes them seemed to be chanting a spell or spiel.

Beyond the tunnel was Calle Real, running between a hospital (San Juan de Dios, the inside of which we saw only on Maundy Thursday’s Visita Iglesia) and a monastery (San Agustin, at whose gates crouched the stone lions we supposed to be the brothers of the lions on Arroceros, crouched in front of the barrack there).

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Calle Real, viewed from the top of Puerta Parian, ca. 1898.

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Hospital de San Juan de Dios at the Parian Gate end of Calle Real, ca. 1900.

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The site is now occupied by Lyceum of the Philippines.

However, there was one corner of Intramuros that struck me, even in childhood, as looking different from the rest of it. Entering Victoria gate, you skirted round the old Manila High School with its great shady trees and came to where Calle Solana started. And at the mouth of Solana was a row of low squarish whitewashed stone buildings, with the wall almost blank, save for a window high up there or balcony with wooden rajas adjutting here. Years later, I would see such houses in villages all over Spain, not merely in Andalucia, and would be reminded of that short block of boxlike houses at the mouth of Calle Solana, the only corner or Intramuros that could be said to look like a bit a Spain.

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The corner of Calle Solana and Calle Victoria, ca. 1940.

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Solana was cobbled, like Calle Real and the other streets in Intramuros except Calle General Luna which was asphalted but the cobbles were not pebbles but largish loaves of a yellowish freckled stone, perhaps the same stone that laid out in blocks, formed the very narrow sidewalks.

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Calle Real del Palacio (now General Luna), ca. 1913.

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Street and sidewalk always looked scrubbed and polished. Manila was then, more or less a tidy city (it had fewer people); before break of day you found the street sweepers, in red trousers, already at work; and several times a day the water wagons sprinkled the streets to lay the dust and wash the paving. But in that neat city Intramuros seemed the cleanest place of all, not dusty during the dry season, never flooded during the rains, unlittered despite the flocks of pigeons ever swarming overhead and the all-day traffic of the pious. And though so granitic it had a green look to it.

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The gate to the Revellin de Bagumbayan (Aquarium), through which one enters to reach Puerta Real, ca. 1900.

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Possibly a 17th-century house on Calle San Francisco, ca. 1940.

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The house was used as a model for one of the replica houses constructed at the Plaza San Luis across San Agustin Church.

The lushest of these elevated parks was on the portion of wall extending from the Victoria Gate to the Puerta Parian. But also sanctuaries of cool shade of greenery were the top of the Muralla in front of Letran and the longer curve of wall from the tennis courts off the Victoria Gate to General Luna.

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A carabao and its master move by Bastion de San Andres, past the ramp leading to a guardhouse, ca. 1898.

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The ramp was recently restored. Part of the Recollect dispensary is to the left, a site now occupied by the Manila Bulletin.

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The entire block at the corner of General Luna and Muralla Streets was once occupied by one impressive building, with at least fifteen foot high ceilings.

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The ramp leading to the top of Parian Gate, 1935.

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The secret wall-top gardens of the Muralla undoubtedly served other purposes but were, for us children, chiefly useful as balconies for parade watching. From the parapets overlooking Burgos Drive, crowded into crannies intended for gun emplacements and standing as near the edge of the rampart as we dared, we gazed across the tops of fire trees beheld the carnival parades in February, the Americans’ military parade on July 4, and the Rizal Day parade in December, gorgeous with the floats of the Rizal Day queens, as those parades wended their way from Plaza Lawton to the Luneta.

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The Manila Cathedral before 1863. The bell tower was damaged in 1863 and finally collapsed in 1880.

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But the Intramuros park dearest to us was the Cathedral square, then known as Plaza McKinley. On no-school day in midweek, to get us out of the women’s hair, my father would take us with him when he left in the morning. If his business was at City Hall he would deposit us at the Jardin Botanico on Arroceros and there we would romp until he picked us up again at noon. If his day was at the courts sa loob ng Maynila we got deposited at Plaza McKinley.

That was a shady park then. As its four corners towered those giant balite trees with overspreading boughs and multiple trunks. Under each tree was a small round pool where goldfish swam, four pools in all. And in the center rose the splendid statue of Don Carlos IV de Borbon, on a pedestal that soared from a fountain-basin where swam more goldfish among floating lotus leaves. Like the Luneta and Jardin Botanico, Plaza McKinley was sanded with powdered seashell, so that its paths were white and crunchy. How we loved that white sand- but it didn’t travel. Time and again we brought home toy-pailfuls of it to sand our own backyard, but after a day or two, it turned black. Only on the parks, it seemed, would that powdered shell stay white and glittery.

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The Ayuntamiento, housing the city administration and the office of the Governor General during the Spanish and American regimes, ca. 1900.

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The Intendencia Building, ca. 1904.

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On the third side of the square was the Ayuntamiento de Manila, the famed Marble Hall into which we sometimes fearfully peered to gape at the sculpture gesticulating on the landing of the marble stairway that there branched into two.

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A patient crowd waits below the forbidding walls of Santa Clara monastery on a street near Fort Santiago, ca. 1900.

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As the crowds streamed in and out of the chapel they were watched from the barracks across the street by American soldiers lolling at the upstairs windows, arguing among themselves over this quaint Holy Week custom of the natives, a custom that turned every street in Intramuros into a mighty human tide, slowly moving and murmurous, and surging right through the churches.

The Visita Iglesia was one of the times when you felt Intramuros to be really the city’s deepest inside, innermost sanctum, holy of holies- a tribal high altar sa loob ng Maynila.

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The Franciscan Church with the church of the Venerable Orden Tercera (V.O.T.)

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The site is now occupied by the Mapua Institute of Technology

Entering through Victoria Gate and going up Solana, you reached San Francisco, which was a double church, for beside the main one (its creamy pillared façade rose five stories high) was the V.O.T., the chapel of the Franciscan third order, where was venerated a crowned St. Louis robbed in ermine.

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The church of Santo Domingo, rebuilt in 1875 after the 1863 earthquake.

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At the end of Solana was Santo Domingo, magnificently gothic and rose-colored with a side portal opening out to the Plaza de Santo Tomas.

Crossing the plaza and passing the university, you came upon the Cathedral, which had wide porches instead of a patio, iron-grille balustrades and, just inside the entrance, a small bronze statue of a seated St. Peter whose toes had been worn smooth by kisses of the faithful.

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Ruins of San Ignacio Church.

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Façade of Ateneo de Manila, ca. 1926.

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The building burned down in 1932. Calle Arzobispo led past ruin of San Ignacio Church.

Past the Cathedral, a left turn at Calle Arzobispo brought you to San Ignacio, wedged between the Ateneo and the episcopal palace; very high iron grilling enclosing the narrow court that formed a portico to this red-brick church known as Jesuitas.

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Calle Real’s other end, leading to Puerta Santa Lucia, ca. 1902.

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Unpaved Calle Arzobispo, with piedra china sidewalks.

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San Agustin Church, ca. 1900.

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At the end of Arzobispo was San Agustin, with its double convent: the main monastery beside the church and the separate business quarters (or procuration) adjoining the Ateneo.

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The Recollect Church with the dispensary on the right, ca. 1900.

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Turning right on the Recoletos and doubling back on General Luna, you reached Lourdes Church, or Capuchinos, youngest of the Walled City’s temples, with a painting of the Virgin on its façade.

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Lourdes Church

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The site is now occupied by Silahis Arts and Handicrafts (El Amanecer Compound)

This churchly tour does not include the various chapels of Intramuros: the chapel of the Archbishop’s Palace (a favorite for society weddings), the chapel of the Poor Clares, the college chapels of Letran and Ateneo, the hospital chapels of St. Paul, San Juan de Dios, the convent-school chapels of Santa Rosa, Santa Catalina, Santa Isabel (where was enshrined a much-revered Santo Cristo) and the Beaterio de la Compañia, this last being the most hid-away convent in Intramuros.

Though the Walled City had a small population, its numerous churches never lacked for congregations; were in fact the most crowded in the city. The reason was that Intramuros as like a second parish to Manileños. On Sundays and feasts you were just as likely to hear Mass at some Church in Intramuros as at your own parish church, where you might run out of masses. But in Intramuros you could hear Mass as early as four o’ clock dawn and as late as high noon.

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Plaza Santo Tomas, with the main building of the UST on the left, Santo Domingo Church at the rear, and Colegio de Santa Rosa on the right, ca. 1902.

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The site is presently occupied by Banco Filipino Building.

Moreover, a common practice of the old-time devotion was to hear low mass at the parish church, go home for breakfast, then take the family to attend high Mass in Intramuros, because high Mass there had the elegance and solemnity that were beyond the resources of the average parish church: rich vestments, elaborate rituals, learned sermons and superb music. The boys’ choirs of Lourdes, Santo Domingo and the Cathedral were famous.

Nor were the Intramuros churches crowded only for Mass in the morning. In those devout days, no Sunday or feast was complete without attendance at the afternoon rosary and benediction- and here, again, the Walled City’s churches provided a more dramatic service: baroque devotion at its most ornate, as typified by the jewelled golden monstrances lifted high for public adoration, amid clouds of incense and to the trilling of bells, a style of worship natural to the Manileño’s rococo heart. Which is why, in the old days, whether at morning Mass or afternoon benediction in an Intramuros church, it was usual to find to your left a family from Tondo, and to your right a family from Santa Ana, and in front of you a family from Sampaloc, and behind you a family from Malate. Manileños from all over were always assembling sa loob ng Maynila.

Maybe a revival of piety (using the term in its Latin sense) will in the future inspire the return to Intramuros of all its former churches, chapels, convents, beaterios. Only then will Intramuros be really “restored”- when again it has a San Francisco with its Tuesdays of St. Anthony; a Santa Clara with its unseen choir of vestals; a Lourdes with its Saturday girl crowds; a Santa Isabel with its shrine of the Santo Cristo; a Recoletos with its Friday pilgrims and December feria de Santa Lucia; a San Ignacio with its fashionable confessionals; an Ateneo and a Santo Tomas back on original ground; a Santa Catalina and Beaterio and Santa Rosa come home again; a San Agustin resuming its public ceremonials; a Cathedral restoring the votive function of St. Andrew the Apostle as patron of the Noble and Ever Loyal; and a Santo Domingo again celebrating La Naval de Manila in old Manila.

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Only then will Manileños again have a high altar round which they can gather as a coherent community- sa loob ng Maynila.

--- Excerpts from Nick Joaquin’s essay on Intramuros
Old Intramuros photos taken from “Intramuros of Memory,” published in 1983

Posted by Wonderboy

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The botanical garden attached to the San Agustin Church is the first botanical garden in Asia. The wall in the background is the remnants of a building destroyed during WW2.

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^^ Date: 1861

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Manila Hotel

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Jose Marti y Perez

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Present:

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Vista desde Manila Hotel-2005
Vista desde Manila Hotel en la actualidad. Los rascacielos en el fondo estan el otro lado del rio Pasig en el barrio de Binondo.

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Vista desde Manila Hotel 2005
Otra vista desde el Manila Hotel en la actualidad.

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Vista de Intramuros 2005
Vista de Intramuros desde el nuevo ayuntamiento de Manila.

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Destrucción Despues de la Guerra
Vista de la destrucción despues de la batalla de Manila. Solamente la Aduana en la esquina inferior derecha escapó con poco daño.

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El Calle Mayor de Intramuros, Calle Real
El calle mayor de Intramuros, Calle Real, antes de la segunda guerra mundial

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Calle Real en la actualidad
Casas reconstruidas en la Calle Real en la actualidad.

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Calle Real en la actualidad
Otra foto del Calle Real en la actualidad.

Great photos:

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Casas Restauradas en Calle General Luna
Casas restauradas en Calle General Luna en la actualidad.

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Casa Restaurada en Calle General Luna
Casa restaurada en Calle General Luna. El Calle General Luna es el mas restaurada en Intramuros.

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Casa Restaurada en Estilo Filhispano
Casa restaurada en el unico estilo Hispano-Filipino. Casa tipica durante la dominción de España. El primer piso es de piedra y el segundo es de madera.

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Casa Restaurada-el Restaurante Barbara's
Una casa restaurada en Calle General Luna. Ahora sirve como el restaurante Barbara's.

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Fachada del Museo Casa Manila
Fachada del Museo Casa Manila en la actualidad.

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Patio de la Casa Manila
Patio de la Casa Manila en la actualidad

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Calle Cabildo circa 1910
Calle Cabildo durante la dominación norteamericano.

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Calle Cabildo en la actualidad




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Casa Restaurada en Calle Cabildo
Casa restaurada en Calle Cabildo

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Hotel Intramuros
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Iglesia de San Agustin circa 1890
La iglesia de San Agustin en 1890.

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Iglesia de San Agustin en Actualidad
El mas antigua iglesia en Filipinas y el unico iglesia que sobrevivió la destrucción durante la segunda guerra mundial.

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Ayala Avenue

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Les Isles Philippines

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Intramuros de Manila Marian Procession


OT:

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Señor Santo Niño Guerrero de Tondo

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La Pieta

A processional tableau in Meycauayan, Bulacan. About thirty carozzas parade in the streets of Meycauayan every Good Friday procession.

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Puerta Real

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Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila

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Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila

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Puerto Real, Intramuros, Manila

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Puerto Real, Intramuros, Manila

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Universidad de Santo Tomas

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Ayala Avenue

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Makati

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interesantes fotos animo, sobretodo el area colonial y los fuertes:)

interesantes fotos animo, sobretodo el area colonial y los fuertes:)

^^ De nada y también visite el foro filipino para más fotos o en mi firma.

Interesante, su aeropuerto me hace recordar al comodora arturo merino benitez de scl.

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floats...

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dancing contingents...

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pintados de passi from passi city, iloilo
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pasasalamat festival from pagadian city...
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dinagyang...
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halad...
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sinulog...
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the queens...

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CAR and ilocos region
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:)

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METROMANILA es uno de los skylines mas infravalorados!! es alucinante el desarrollo de esas 4 ciudades ( ya no hablando d las clasicas Asiaticas: TOkio, Hong Kong, Singapur, Seul, Taipei) realmente me alucina x completo Yakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok y MetroManila, q pena q ya no se hable español =( pero alucinante su desarrollo

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Manila Bay

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MM Skyline
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wow.. even though I don't understand Spanish.. It's nice that my hometown, Metro Manila is featured here! (even if I isn't considered as a town)

Me encantan esas fotos de Manila, ha crecido mucho...aunque en realidad siempre que oigo hablar de Filipinas me entristezco al saber que antes el Español era la lengua de la mayoría de los Filipinos, y ahora es una lengua minoritaria y que podria desaparecer, solo con ver que la mayoria de la gente de ese país tiene apellidos españoles y son católicos, se nota su relacion con iberoamerica..

wowwwwwwww nice pictures geat thread it really have a really nice looking skyline

¡Manila es impresionante! Não lo puedo creer! ¡Las torres me encantan! ¡Gracias por las fotos! :applause:
kool! :okay:

-koolkid

Me encantan esas fotos de Manila, ha crecido mucho...aunque en realidad siempre que oigo hablar de Filipinas me entristezco al saber que antes el Español era la lengua de la mayoría de los Filipinos, y ahora es una lengua minoritaria y que podria desaparecer, solo con ver que la mayoria de la gente de ese país tiene apellidos españoles y son católicos, se nota su relacion con iberoamerica..

El castellano era el idioma nacional, pero despues de la derrota de la Primera Republica de Filipinas contra los Estados Unidos (guerra 1898-1903), los colonizadores nuevos cambiaron el sistema de la educacion de español al ingles. Muchos hispanoparlantes murieron de la guerra contra los norteamericanos y tambien en la segunda guerra mundial en Manila. Ahora, todavia hayan familias que hablan el castellano pero son muy pocos y cada dia los viejos toman el idioma a sus tumbas. Lo sigue desapareciendo dia a dia.

Hola Virtute! Good to know that there is also some filipino forumers in this thread.

hey, im glad, youre not gone for good.. @mandy

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I love its skyline (specially at night)....but in general the city looks a bit unfriendly....maybe Im wrong but as I can see in the pics there are too much skyscrapers and highways and not a lot of green areas and classic architecture, that makes it look a bit artificial...I'd like to see the friendly part of the city (if its got one)...anyway its skyline is very impressive indeed :)

El castellano era el idioma nacional, pero despues de la derrota de la Primera Republica de Filipinas contra los Estados Unidos (guerra 1898-1903), los colonizadores nuevos cambiaron el sistema de la educacion de español al ingles. Muchos hispanoparlantes murieron de la guerra contra los norteamericanos y tambien en la segunda guerra mundial en Manila. Ahora, todavia hayan familias que hablan el castellano pero son muy pocos y cada dia los viejos toman el idioma a sus tumbas. Lo sigue desapareciendo dia a dia.

si ...es cierto, todo eso..hace tiempo me puse a investigar sobre la historia de Filipinas y me di cuenta de lo mucho que estan relacionados con iberoamérica..muchas gracias por responderme..saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela:)

Hace cosa de dos meses la presidenta de Filipinas estuvo de visita de estado en España y le pidio ayuda al rey en materia de educación para potenciar la enseñanza del español, se tomaron unas medidas al respecto como la ampliacioón del instituto cervantes de Manila y la creación de otros dos en el 2007/2008 que sirvan no solo para alumnos interesados en aprender castellano, sino también para preparar a profesores de español que posteriormente enseñen en las escuelas de primaria y secundaria quizás de forma obligatoria (depende de si se produce una reforma en la educación).

Esto hace pensar que exista un síntoma de un incipiente relanzamiento del español. :)

Muy bonita ciudad...gran skyline y muy buen desarrollo...

El skyline sera una maravilla, pero ¿Desarrollo?, esta es una clara muestra que los edificos no son sinonimo de bienestar, en CNN dieron un reportaje sobre manila y mi indignacion fue mas grande que el rascacielo mas alto pueda poseer que lastima como vive esa gente, saben como vive la gente a unos minutos ??? ni te lo imaginas... tanto es asi que han construido como bungalos sobre las aguas fetidas del rio y viven hacinados en espacios tan reducidos que apenas pueden moverse, tb habia gente que vivia en cerros de basura recolectando los desperdicios para sobrevivir, entre otros casos muy tristes.

Esa es la otra cara de la globalizacion >>>>>>> LA INJUSTICIA SOCIAL los ricos se hacen mas ricos y los pobres mas pobres :(.

Bueno solo basta mirar nuetsras ciudades de LA.

^^ tienes razon, yo tambien vi eso en CNN pero mejor no tokemos ese tema en este thread si no kieres q paresca como los del foro español... pura criticadera

El skyline sera una maravilla, pero ¿Desarrollo?, esta es una clara muestra que los edificos no son sinonimo de bienestar, en CNN dieron un reportaje sobre manila y mi indignacion fue mas grande que el rascacielo mas alto pueda poseer que lastima como vive esa gente, saben como vive la gente a unos minutos ??? ni te lo imaginas... tanto es asi que han construido como bungalos sobre las aguas fetidas del rio y viven hacinados en espacios tan reducidos que apenas pueden moverse, tb habia gente que vivia en cerros de basura recolectando los desperdicios para sobrevivir, entre otros casos muy tristes.

Esa es la otra cara de la globalizacion >>>>>>> LA INJUSTICIA SOCIAL los ricos se hacen mas ricos y los pobres mas pobres :(.

Bueno solo basta mirar nuetsras ciudades de LA.

Perdon...me refereri en algun lugar al desarrollo socio/economico de Filipinas? este es un foro de urbanismo y segun se aprecia en las fotos Manila esta bastante bien desarrollada en lo que se refiere a infraestructura...que hay partes pobres? seguro que muchas (como tambien habra muchas partes ricas), eso todos lo sabemos, pero no hace falta sacarlo a relucir..

Y la foto estaria muy bien que la quitaras, no seas desubicado...me gustaria ver como reaccionarias si en un thread de Lima o Arequipa alguien pone fotos de zonas pobres y saca a relucir la miseria que vive un significativo % de la poblacion peruana...

El skyline sera una maravilla, pero ¿Desarrollo?, esta es una clara muestra que los edificos no son sinonimo de bienestar, en CNN dieron un reportaje sobre manila y mi indignacion fue mas grande que el rascacielo mas alto pueda poseer que lastima como vive esa gente, saben como vive la gente a unos minutos ??? ni te lo imaginas... tanto es asi que han construido como bungalos sobre las aguas fetidas del rio y viven hacinados en espacios tan reducidos que apenas pueden moverse, tb habia gente que vivia en cerros de basura recolectando los desperdicios para sobrevivir, entre otros casos muy tristes.

Esa es la otra cara de la globalizacion >>>>>>> LA INJUSTICIA SOCIAL los ricos se hacen mas ricos y los pobres mas pobres :(.

Bueno solo basta mirar nuetsras ciudades de LA.

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We no longer have this one. All the informal settlers along the rails in metro manila have been relocated to a low cost housing by the government.

It's all been cleared, It started last year (clearing operation) and as of the time I'm posting this message the tracks is already cleared ;) http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police04_feb09_2006 . The photo you posted was old and most shanties in metro manila has been relocated already and they transferred to a low cost and decent houses.

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Esta foto es simplemente espléndida!

Manila: My genetic town!

Y porque cambiaron el idioma de español a ingles ??

Y porque cambiaron el idioma de español a ingles ??

Honestamente la cultura filipina es una mezcla de las dos culturas, cultura asiatica-malaya y cultura espanola o hispano y no esta completa (la una) sin otra. Cambiado porque el ingles es el idioma mas importante en la region. Tambien, los norteamericanos nos influyeron tanto en la educacion publica. Fue un problema cuando las Filipinas es el solo pais que habla español en Asia, comparado a Iberoamérica donde cada país habla español.

Y porque cambiaron el idioma de español a ingles ??

Filipinas fue una colonia Española durante unos 300 años igual que los demas paises hispanoamericanos, se le impuso la religion y lengua que predominaba en la peninsula iberica, pero en 1898 cuando ya España estaba muy debilitada y habia perdido casi todas sus colonias en América( excepto cuba y Puerto rico), EEUU inicio un conflicto con España en Cuba que se extendio hasta las colonias en Asia (Filipinas, las islas carolinas, Guam ect) y que tras la desastrosa derrota española, esta se vio obligada a cederle a EEUU: Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Guam (estos 2 ultimos aun hoy bajo gobierno Estadounidense) y Cuba ( cuya ocupacion duro poco hasta 1902)...
el gobierno de EEUU aplasto la guerrilla filipina que queria la independencia e impuso su gobierno sobre las islas, entre otras cosas establecio el Ingles en la enseñanza Filipina y como lengua oficial..
:ohno:

Hace cosa de dos meses la presidenta de Filipinas estuvo de visita de estado en España y le pidio ayuda al rey en materia de educación para potenciar la enseñanza del español, se tomaron unas medidas al respecto como la ampliacioón del instituto cervantes de Manila y la creación de otros dos en el 2007/2008 que sirvan no solo para alumnos interesados en aprender castellano, sino también para preparar a profesores de español que posteriormente enseñen en las escuelas de primaria y secundaria quizás de forma obligatoria (depende de si se produce una reforma en la educación).

Esto hace pensar que exista un síntoma de un incipiente relanzamiento del español. :)


ojala y algun dia recuperen la que una vez fue su Lengua

Casa Manila by Guts. Grit. Gumption.

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I love its skyline (specially at night)....but in general the city looks a bit unfriendly....maybe Im wrong but as I can see in the pics there are too much skyscrapers and highways and not a lot of green areas and classic architecture, that makes it look a bit artificial...I'd like to see the friendly part of the city (if its got one)...anyway its skyline is very impressive indeed :)

Manila has them although no longer that visible because of World War II. It is the only capital in Asia where you can find a medieval forts and structures that dates back to 1500s. You should visit the Heritage and Archiecture thread in the Philippine forum, since I posted alot of those photos that dates back in Spanish colonial period and pre-war Manila. I do agree with you that it needs more green spaces, but now most of the malls have this mini-oasis feel inside the malls.

que buen skyline, de verdad Manila es inmensa, no crei que lo fuera, ademas las fotos estan muy bonitas. Saludos!

visitar mi Website para algunas fotos actualizadas adicionales www.geocities.com/ncbmandy

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que buen skyline, de verdad Manila es inmensa, no crei que lo fuera, ademas las fotos estan muy bonitas. Saludos!

Gracias kiro! :)

‘In the shadow of thy wings we rest’
By Manuel Maximo Lopez del Castillo-Noche
Inquirer

Last updated 01:07am (Mla time) 10/30/2006
Published on page C1 of the October 30, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

CEMETERIES ARE CONSIDERED cities of the dead. Usually enclosed by high walls, they remain virtual ghost towns for much of the year, their silence broken only every now and then by funeral processions and burials.

It is only during the much-celebrated All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day that they buzz with the activity of the living as those who are left behind pay their respects to the dead, bringing with them the trappings of daily life.

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But there are more to cemeteries than the pervasive somber—if eerie—atmosphere; from an architectural standpoint, they are miniature showcases of various styles, forms and influences. They, in fact, tell the story of architecture.

The Cemeteria Catolica de la Loma, Cemeterio Municipal de Manila (Manila North Cemetery) and the Chinese Cemetery in Manila house the best examples of funerary architecture in the Philippines. Established during the dying years of the 19th century, they have what are probably the best and richest mausoleums money can buy.

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Walking through these hallowed grounds, one passes by interpretations of Egyptian mortuary temples complete with palm-shaped columns and hollow gorged doorways on which are etched a solar disc with spread wings—the Egyptian symbol of protection. There, too, are pyramids guarded by sphinxes, as well as Greek- and Roman-inspired temples with Doric, Ionic or Corinthian orders.

Other styles are represented as well: Romanesque-type churches with their barrel vaults; Gothic interpretations with their characteristic pointed arches; Art Nouveau memorials with their flowing sinuous lines; Art Deco mausoleums with their jazz-like edges; Modern International Style mortuaries with their simple plain-white walls; and the ever ubiquitous mausoleums done in the Postmodern style.

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Oriental architecture manifests itself in the form of Chinese pagodas with up curved tiled roofs and elaborately crafted mystical dragons, and Hindu Sikhara temples with parabolic-shaped domes.

Best materials

Most of these memorials are made of the best materials. Blocks of solid-white marble or green or black granite are carved and chiseled with volutes and scrolls or acanthus leaves to replicate Greek or Roman temples. Others are carved with intricate cusps to adorn the edges of pinnacles for Gothic spires.

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Magnificent sculptures crafted by Luerssen y Oriol and Sons during the early part of the century dominate the tombs of the wealthy and the famous. Elaborate statues and stelaes or lapidas bearing Oriol’s signature are found all over the three Manila cemeteries.

But one does not necessarily have to be a marble magnate to have a beautiful mausoleum. Most other memorials are more humble in their construction. Made of hollowed plaster reinforced by concrete and decorated with allegories of weeping angels, they have as well managed to stand the test of time.

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The statuary found particularly in La Loma and Norte are quite interesting. If one wonders where the art of sculpting has gone, one only has to visit these two cemeteries to find the answer.

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The graceful lines of weeping widows, guardian angels crying at the demise of their beloved wards, sorrowful virgins praying to high heavens and staunch maidens protecting the tombs of their beloved are but a few of the images that these statues capture—though one wonders why only women seem to have the right to weep over their dearly departed.

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This mausoleum dates back to 1868. The oldest piece of structure in the Chinese cemetery.

Even the art of the lapida is seen at its best in these cemeteries. Names carved in the Art Nouveau or Art Deco style are surrounded with bas-relief of angels and garlands of flowers, while a tomb of a small child is decorated with small statues of playing children.

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I never dared to look inside but Ivan said it was the best part.

Famous personalities

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A mausoleum for Dominican priests

Of the three cemeteries, it is in the North Cemetery where most of the famous personages in Philippine history are interred. Like the Cemeterio de la Recoleta in Buenos Aires where Evita Peron is entombed; Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington D.C. where the tombs of the Kennedys are; Highgate in London where Karl Marx is buried; or the Tikhvin in St. Petersburg, where the great 19th-century composers Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov and Mussorgsky are buried—the Norte houses the mortal remains of celebrities including Pancho Villa, world lightweight champion of the 1920s; Felix Resureccion Hidalgo, world-class painter and patriot; Claro M. Recto, orator and nationalist; film icons and father and son Fernando Poe Sr. and Jr.; the late presidents Manuel A. Roxas, Sergio Osmeña and Ramon Magsaysay; American Governor General Francis Burton Harrison; the heroes of the Philippine Revolution against Spain; Gregoria de Jesus, wife of Bonifacio and muse of the Katipunan; and the first American teachers known as the Thomasites and firefighters of the land.


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Unfortunately, not many people find pleasure in visiting cemeteries. Perhaps it is the presence of a tomb or the sight of rows upon rows of crosses and peeling statues of weeping angels that bring horror to most.

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Cemeteries are memorials not only to those who have gone beyond, but also to the glory days of funerary art and architecture. That alone should be enough reason to see them not just as places of yearly pilgrimages but also as heritage sites that serve as a bridge to the architecture of the past. For in the end, our mortal remains shall rest in such cemeteries and what better way to celebrate our life but with monuments dedicated to our memory.

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A dedication inscribed in a tomb in Cemeterio de la Loma describes what I think is our utmost desire: “In the shadow of thy wings we rest, for in the end we do need to rest, and preferably in his shadow.”

The author is an architect and architectural historian. He teaches at the College of Architecture of the University of Sto. Tomas.

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Fuente Carriedo

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Cultural Center of the Philippines
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Avenida / Santa Cruz

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Barbaras Restaurant

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Calle Urdaneta

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Arquitectura Moderna

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Hardin de Blanco

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Metropolitan Theatre

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Hacienda Manila

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Parque Paco

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Ruinas

nice city, awesome skyline

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Manila city hall
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Baluarte de San Diego, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila @the background
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Makati Pictures by Parc Cruz
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some beautiful photos of Metro Manila from Philippine Sub-Forum

Sorprendente Metro Manila. Muy bonitas fotos. Me gusta tanto la parte moderna como la que se ve en las fotos antiguas. No tenía idea de que Manila fuese así. Se ve muy moderna. Hay partes que tienen un parecido con Los Angeles, Ca. La catedral de Manila, al igual que las otras iglesias, me gustó mucho. Gracias a todos por las fotos.

Impresionante skyline que tiene esta ciudad!!

Muy lindo todo.

Muchas gracias Juan y Jaguar! Hay mas fotos de la ciudad aca: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=373715

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Mr. & Ms. Magazine

mochachos chuvanes cheverlo cho cho

^^ Oist what are you doing here? :lol:

Video del turismo de Manila, Filipinas.
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Magnífica, Majestuosa, Maravillosa, Manila!!!!!!

Diez pistas para moverse por la caótica capital filipina bajo la filosofía tagala de vivir el momento

AITOR ORDAX (http://elviajero.elpais.com/articulo/viajero/Bahala/na/Manila/elpepusoc/20081202elpepuvia_1/Tes) - 02/12/2008

Resulta difícil de comprender para cualquier viajero el optimismo vital de los filipinos si sólo se atiende a la trágica historia de su capital y su país. La evolución del archipiélago filipino y en especial, la de Manila, está marcada por catástrofes naturales, invasiones y guerras.

Herida por terremotos, bombardeos, ocupaciones, más bombardeos y reconstrucciones, Manila sigue en pie con una sonrisa gracias, en parte, a su filosofía de vida basada en el Bahala na!: una expresión tagala muy utilizada por los filipinos similar al Carpe diem y que significa algo así como "que pase lo que tenga que pasar". Un hedonismo que sirve también de alivio para soportar el caos del tráfico, la contaminación y el ritmo frenético de una megalópolis que nunca duerme.

Catorce ciudades y tres municipalidades, que conforman lo que se conoce como Metro Manila, y unos diez millones de personas, pueden contribuir a provocar cierto vértigo en el visitante. Pero Manila no es sólo el lugar de paso donde se ubica el aeropuerto que lleva a las paradisíacas islas del país. Esconde una larga lista de rincones que merecen ser conocidos y que EL VIAJERO resume en diez propuestas:

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1. Intramuros. Toda visita a Manila debe empezar por Intramuros, reliquia de la ocupación española y prácticamente, el único rincón de la ciudad y del país donde se ve la huella colonial de España. Al margen de nombres propios y apellidos, topónimos y unas pocas palabras del tagalo, no queda rastro de la lengua castellana en contra de lo que se cree.

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En Intramuros se conserva esa atmósfera de antigua ciudad española de finales del siglo XIX y, en unos minutos, se puede pasear de un lado a otro del recinto amurallado. La herencia colonial resiste en plazas, calles adoquinadas y la preciosa iglesia de San Agustín. Este templo de interior barroco de 1587, situado en la calle General Luna, contiene la tumba de Miguel López Legazpi, fundador de Manila. La iglesia y su monasterio pueden presumir de ser los únicos edificios supervivientes de la II Guerra Mundial.

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Muy cerca, en esta zona, se encuentran también el Palacio del Gobernador y la catedral de Manila, destruida seis veces por todo tipo de catástrofes y guerras y cuya estructura actual se remonta a la restauración del Vaticano de 1958.

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2. Parque Rizal. Al sur de Intramuros, a unos diez minutos a pie por la calle Padre Burgos, se ubica el Parque Rizal, una gran zona verde para correr a primera hora de la mañana, almorzar en familia o escapar de la polución y el bullicio manileños. Al final del parque, en la Bahía de Manila, se encuentra el Monumento a Rizal, el héroe nacional de Filipinas que encabezó la sublevación contra los españoles y que fue ejecutado a pocos metros del monolito.

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3. Bahía de Manila. Justo al lado del Parque Rizal, la no siempre limpia bahía de Manila ofrece atardeceres de ensueño con el marco del mar del Sur de China. Merece la pena asistir al espectáculo desde el bulevar Roxas, para luego dar un paseo y tomar algo en los numerosos locales de las inmediaciones.

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4. Recorrido fluvial. No es una propuesta que aparezca en las guías, pero puede ser una buena idea salirse del camino marcado por una vez. De la dársena de Intramuros parte un barco de transporte de viajeros que navega por el río Pasig para huir del tráfico de Manila, algo que en hora punta es una excelente alternativa.

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No es muy común encontrarse con occidentales -en realidad, en Manila no lo es en prácticamente ningún lugar-, pero ofrece un punto de vista alternativo y refleja claramente los contrastes sociales de la ciudad, con abundantes infraviviendas a pocos metros del palacio presidencial de Malacañang.

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Al ser un medio de transporte más que un barco turístico, el barco es sólo de ida (para volver hay que bajarse y volver a subirse en el barco que va en sentido contrario) y lo mejor es apearse en la dársena cercana al centro comercial Rockwell.

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5. Vida nocturna. Una ciudad insomne como Manila necesita un espacio de ambiente nocturno. Esa zona es Malate, un barrio repleto de cafés, restaurantes, locales de masaje, bares y clubes para salir de noche. La tolerancia de Malate deja también su hueco al ambiente gay, con importante presencia en Manila.

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6. Makati, distrito financiero. Pero Manila también es Makati, el distrito financiero e internacional y motor económico de la ciudad. Situado a cinco kilómetros al este de la bahía, Makati marca distancias con la Manila más depauperada.

Rascacielos, hoteles de lujo, sedes bancarias, oficinas de organismos internacionales, cadenas de restaurantes, boutiques y centros comerciales dan una idea de este barrio, una porción de occidente superpuesta en la capital filipina. Si el viajero espera encontrar algún extranjero en Manila, Makati es el lugar.

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7. Devoción por los centros comerciales. Es curioso el interés que las compras y los centros comerciales suscitan en los manileños, quizás justificado por la herencia del periodo de influencia estadounidense. Uno de los más grandes se ubica precisamente en Makati: el centro comercial Glorietta. Destaca también el Greenbelt, en el mismo distrito. Pero hay muchos más. Puede ser interesante pasear por alguno de ellos para comprobar esa devoción filipina por el consumismo y llevarse algún recuerdo.

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8. Ciudad de Museos. Como toda gran ciudad, Manila también cuenta con una larga lista de museos. Destacan el Museo Ayala (en Makati Avenue), con dioramas sobre la historia filipina y colecciones arqueológicas y etnográficas; el Museo Nacional de Filipinas (en el Parque Rizal), con pinturas de los maestros filipinos como Juan Luna o Fernando Amorsolo; y el Museo Metropolitano (en el Bulevar Roxas), con arte histórico y contemporáneo de Asia, América, Europa y Egipto.

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9. Moverse por Manila. El transporte por Manila es un caos. La prisa hay que dejarla en casa porque es prácticamente imposible pensar en llegar a la hora al coger un autobús o un taxi, sobre todo en hora punta. Además, la conducción caótica puede asustar, con vehículos cruzándose de carril casi sin mirar y usando el claxon sin parar.

La insuficiente red de transporte público y el escaso valor de los pesos filipinos hacen que el mejor medio de transporte para el visitante sea el taxi. Sin embargo, conviene tener cuidado con los taxistas al negociar el precio. El mejor consejo para el viajero occidental es que exija al conductor que ponga el taxímetro, a no ser que la carrera sea larguísima, porque en una negociación casi siempre saldrá perdiendo. Si el taxista no accede, bájese y tome otro. Por ejemplo, el trayecto entre el aeropuerto y Makati no debería costar más de 150 pesos (en torno a 2,4 euros).

Otra alternativa son los típicos jeepneys, vehículos todoterreno alargados para que quepa más gente, decorados con muchos colores y motivos, generalmente religiosos, y mucho más baratos que los taxis. En el centro de Manila, también funcionan los tricicles o trikes, que no son otra cosa que motocicletas con un adosado de chapa para que quepan dos o tres personas.

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10. Alrededores: No es que Manila carezca de atracciones turísticas, pero resulta casi imprescindible aventurarse a descubrir sus alrededores en excursiones de un día. A 80 kilómetros de Manila -se puede llegar en autobús-, se encuentra Pagsanjan y sus famosas cataratas, donde el realizador Francis Ford Coppola rodó las escenas finales de su película Apocalypse Now. El trayecto, de catorce rápidos por el río Bombongan, se recorre en pequeños botes y es casi seguro que el visitante se mojará, así que mejor llevar ropa para cambiarse. Otros enclaves cercanos de interés son la isla de Corregidor y el Parque Natural de Bataan.

Fantastica metropoli, realmente impresiona muy bien...

^^ Gracias Romanito. :)

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También se edificó aquí la primera universidad de Asia a la que llamaron la Real y Pontificia de Santo Tomás antes incluso de que existieran las universidades de India. Ahí se formaron los primeros ilustrados filipinos que en la actualidad son estudiados en las aulas del país. De esta forma, las ideas liberales que se trajeron por los eruditos españoles fueron pronto asimiladas por las clases ilustradas de mestizos, aunque pronto se darían algunos conflictos entre los estamentos clericales y los grupos autóctonos que lucharon contra el dominio español.

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La capital de Filipinas es por lo general un destino muy poco frecuente por lo que resulta algo raro que se vean muchos turistas en esta ciudad. A ello ha incidido la larga lucha de independencia que se ha vivido aquí, lo que hizo que durante mucho tiempo los viajes Manila no fueran demasiado frecuentes. No obstante esta situación en la actualidad está cambiando y cada vez es más frecuente ver gente que elige viajar Manila entre otros muchos destinos de interés.

Antes de la II guerra mundial

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La ciudad originaria fue la de Intramuros que se encuentra ubicada en la ribera meridional del río Pasig, la cual se vió muy afectada con la destrucción llevada a cabo por los estadounidenses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. No obstante se han mantenido en pie muchos edificios muy notables de la arquitectura española del siglo XVII y que han quedado como ejemplo de este periodo colonial filipino.

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Antes de la llegada de los españoles, era un lugar bajo el dominio musulmán donde ya se desarrollaba un floreciente comercio con China sobre todo, pero también con otros puntos de Asia Oriental. Pero fue durante la etapa colonial cuando más floreció y cuando se encuentran los mejores ejemplos y la mayor cantidad de monumentos como los palacios privados, los amplios conventos y algunos de los más bellos templos e iglesias de la zona.

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La fortaleza Santiago en Manila recuerda uno la hist oria de Manila. La fortaleza representó la fuerza de la regla colonial española que gobernó por casi tres siglos. Los Británicos ocuparon la fortaleza para un breve período (1762 - 1764) después de lo cual los E.E.U.U. aferrado a ella labrar las fuerzas japonesas que la ocuparon durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La fortaleza Santiago en Manila fue construida en el sitio del palacio del Rajah Suliman que fue destruido por los invasores españoles. Esto es una fortaleza magnífica con canon enormes que pasan por alto el mar para destruir a los piratas y a los invasores musulmanes. La fortaleza Santiago de Manila fue construida inicialmente de las estructuras y de la tierra del registro pero fue destruido después de la guerra con los piratas chinos (1574-75). En 1592 la fortaleza fue construida por la piedra dura y utilizada como un centro para el comercio especialmente especias a Europa.

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La fortaleza Santiago es rodeada por 22 metros de bastión alto que sean 8 m de grueso. La fortaleza está situada en la boca del río Pasig. La fortaleza fue conquistada pero este vez por las fuerzas japonesas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y dañada otra vez cerca las bombas del americano durante la batalla de Manila (1945). En los años 80 la administración de Intramuros restauró la fortaleza de Santiago y sirve hoy como museo que showcases las herencias de la regla española. Las otras atracciones en la fortaleza son el Jose Rizal (da Armas de la plaza), capilla de Rizal y los Dungeon de la prisión. La capilla de Rizal tiene los artículos usados por el Jose Rizal que también incluye el poema de despedida que él escribió en la víspera de su ejecución. Sobre los años encarcelaron y fueron dejados a muchos filipinos para ahogarse en Dungeon que eran el alto nivel de la marea.

Mercado de Quiapo: es el mercado más importante no sólo de esta ciudad sino también de Filipinas por lo que no hay que perderse la oportunidad de conocerlo y visitarlo en el viaje Manila. Es sobre todo un lugar dedicado a la cultura china, ya que se pueden encontrar cientos de productos dedicados a esta cultura entre los que se incluyen frutas y artesanías.

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Como la ciudad capital de Filipinas, Manila es también el centro de la actividad comercial del país. Junto con atracciones incontables, Manila es también placer de un comprador. El hacer compras en Manila tiene opciones numerosas de vendedores de las aceras y de tiendas al por menor pequeñas para poner districtos y centros de compras grandes. Nada puede batir la diversión de hacer compras en Manila como los mercados y las tiendas aquí son llenas de colores vibrantes, de alboroto y de mercancías. De antigüedades y de artesanías a los productos ricos del techno moderno encontrarás definitivamente todo en Manila. Hay muchos mercados en Manila pero el más popular es mercado de Divisoria. Este mercado vende todo el hasta 50% menos. Un paraíso verdadero del cazador de negocio este mercado es para los que tengan bastante valor y paciencia y es bueno en el negocio. Además, hay muchos mercados mojados al aire libre. Entre ellos los populares son mercado central, mercado del Cloverleaf, mercado de la ciudad de Quezon y mercado portuario de Navotas. Manila también contiene algunas mejores alamedas de compras no sólo del país pero también de Asia. La alameda del SM de Asia es la segunda alameda de compras más grande de Asia y del tercer más grande de mundo. Otro complejo de compras que arrellana de Manila es Ayala de centro que contiene la alameda de compras de Glorietta y la alameda de compras de Greenbelt.

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El centro de compras de Greenhills es otra alameda de compras preferida que tiene ambos una alameda y un tiangge. Para la última experiencia de las compras de Manila los tiangges son las mejores opciones. Tiangges es las paradas pequeñas arracimadas juntas que venden todo en los precios muy comprables. Pero debes ser bueno en hacer el negocio que estipula para gozar de compras en tiangges.

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Plaza del Carmen, Manila 1011, número de Filipinas
Telefono: la iglesia de +63 2 523 8411 (tablero del turismo)

San Sebastian en Filipinas es uno de los especímenes más raros del esplendor arquitectónico gótico y de la única muestra en Asia. Localizado en Quiapo, un viejo districto en Manila, esta iglesia se hace enteramente del acero. Ocultado en medio de una fila de viejas casas en el lugar, el marco y los paneles de acero de la iglesia del San Sebastian hablan del immensity de la iglesia. La fundición del anónimo de Societe en Binche, Bélgica fabricó las piezas de acero, que fueron traídas a Manila primero el 12 de junio de 1888. Tomó dos años para recoger las piezas de acero para los artesanos locales que fueron ayudados más adelante por la firma del belga en construir la iglesia del San Sebastian.

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Diseñado por Gustave Eiffel, esta iglesia fue concedida con el estado del basilica de menor importancia el 24 de junio de 1890. Dentro de un año, fue abierta. Mancharás groined cámaras acorazadas, las partes de acero de columnas, las paredes y el techo que se asemejan al estilo arquitectónico del artista filipino Lorenzo Rocha. Hay también confesonarios, púlpito, altares, estatuas de hombres santos y mujeres templadas al estilo gótico mezclado con las innovaciones del diecinueveavo siglo. La iglesia del San Sebastian en Filipinas ha sido acordada el estado de la señal histórica nacional tan bien como uno de los sitios puestos en peligro del mundo por el reloj de los monumentos del mundo en 1998.

El cementerio americano en Manila está situado cerca de 6 millas de sureste de Manila. El cementerio contiene el número más grande de los soldados de los sepulcros de los E.E.U.U. en ultramar y está situado dentro de la fortaleza Bonifacio que era la fortaleza anterior Guillermo Mckinely. El cementerio americano consiste en acres de la tierra en donde abundan las cruces y las estrellas de David. El monumento circular en el cementerio también ha grabado nombres en la columna de mármol de los soldados que falta. Aquí uno encontraría 17.206 sepulcros de los soldados de los E.E.U.U. que murieron el luchar en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hay una capilla en el cementerio americano de Manila y hay 25 mapas grandes del mosaico en los cuartos que exhiben el logro de los E.E.U.U. en el Pacífico, la China, la India y la Birmania. La Comisión americana de los monumentos de la batalla mantiene el cementerio. Es de mérito visitar el cementerio y el monumento americanos de Manila donde estaría capaz uno de encontrar un serene y un ambiente pacífico y sobretodo la dignidad con los cuales han puesto a los soldados para reclinarse. La visita a este lugar sería toda junta diferente pues tiene historia en conjunto diversa para decir el mundo y también diferente a partir de la vida de la ciudad de Manila. El cementerio americano es diario abierto a partir de 9 est hasta 5 P.M. excepto el 25 de diciembre y el 1 de enero.

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El palacio de Malacañang en Manila está situado en los bancos del río de Pasig en el suburbio de Manila de San Miguel. Este palacio es histórico y fue construido en el décimo octavo siglo por un noble español llamado pone a Luis Rocha. El palacio de Malacañang se convirtió en más adelante la residencia oficial del verano de los 18 gobernadores españoles y después de eso de 14 gobernadores civiles americanos. Era en el año de 1825 que el palacio de Malacañang fue comprado por el gobierno español y en 1937 se convirtió en la residencia oficial del presidente filipino. El palacio llegó a ser popular como el hogar de presidente Ferdinand e Imelda Marcos, que sintió bien a los residentes más largos a partir de 1965 a 1986, cuando depusieron al presidente Marcos y era el palacio stormed por el populacho local y los medios. El palacio de Malacañang se convirtió en la residencia oficial del presidente de Filipinas después de la independencia. El complejo tiene hoy el lugar de Malacañang, el Bonifacio Pasillo, Kalayaan Pasillo, Mabini Pasillo y el edificio ejecutivo nuevo. Uno encontraría el parque de Malacañang a través del río que tiene un curso de golf y la casa presidencial del resto de la era de la Commonwealth.

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El estilo arquitectónico del palacio presidencial de Malacañang en Manila ha experimentado varias alteraciones desde los 150 años pasados y ha perdido su mérito arquitectónico original. Se ve con los arcos, balcones, volantes y ventanas el resbalar Los cuartos históricos del palacio de Malacañang no son accesibles al público en general sino que ahora está mucho mejor que cuál estaba durante la dictadura. Pero no ser faltado son los tres chandeliers en el pasillo de la recepción, la madera dura usada para la escalera, los retratos de los presidentes anteriores y el cuarto de la música y el museo del palacio que está abierto al público. La calle de Mendiola cerca al palacio es a menudo el lugar para las protestas y reuniones contra el gobierno.

que triste este hilo de repente se convirtió en reposo por un tiempo muy largo!
Me gustaría compartir algunas fotos de esta hermosa ciudad!

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yo sería muy feliz si español volverá a las Filipinas como lo era antes. He oído que el gobierno quiere que sea enseñado de nuevo en las escuelas y universidades! El español es una parte importante de la historia de Filipinas que se ha ido hace mucho tiempo!

aquí hay algunas fotos más que quiero compartir!
algunas de estas fotos son muy antiguas como la primera foto!
sin embargo, yo todavía creo que están bien!


not the best, but in my top 10

Manila

pics just a bit old, as manila's tallest is not shown yet.. but it shows parts of >> Uptown >> Midtown >> Downtown :)
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photo taken & all credit to: shyaman


Uptown
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Mid-Town
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Downtown during the night
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Makati City Skyline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/muning/3830531008/) by c.u.p.k.e.y.k. (http://www.flickr.com/people/muning/), on Flickr

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Fort Bonifacio View (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdeepaniii/5593884555/) by Jaydee Pan (Stopped for a while) (http://www.flickr.com/people/jdeepaniii/), on Flickr

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photo taken & all credit to: To2Camba

Downtown, the morning after


Makati

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here are some more photos i would like to share

Wow, stunning aerial of Metro Manila! I see the gap in the center of 3 skylines slowly shrinking.


makati cbd
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5100/5458495770_65d910c32a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrera911/5458495770/)
View of Manila Golf Club (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrera911/5458495770/) by fbgcxxxx (http://www.flickr.com/people/carrera911/), on Flickr


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5726242591_73c259fc73_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5726242591/)
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and ships from the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group anchor in Manila Bay. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5726242591/) by Official U.S. Navy Imagery (http://www.flickr.com/people/usnavy/), on Flickr

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3331/5727711732_b3f8a5698b_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/5727711732/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/5727711732/) by #PACOM (http://www.flickr.com/people/us-pacific-command/), on Flickr

Coincido contigo respecto al español, Filipinas es un Pais hermano nuestro (especialmente de Mexico), cuando viví en EEUU conocí a algunas personas de Filipinas y de Guam, me pareció muy interesante el hecho de que aun conservaran palabras y expresiones en español.
Jeje, con una amiga nos la pasábamos hablando de telenovelas, a ella le encantaba marinar :lol:

exactamente. Filipinas y Latinoamérica son hermanos en la cultura! He traído unos amigos salvadoreños que el año pasado y se sorprendieron de que todo se parece a latinoamerica! Sin embargo, es tan triste que el idioma español no está bien conservada. Realmente espero que la gente volverá a aprender y hablar español allí ... es bueno saber que todavía hay algunas personas que lo hablan, pero es mejor si una vez más ser uno de los idiomas oficiales en el mismo país!

Buenas fotos de manila, hasta pareciera que hubiera poca pobreza...
Lo que me parece curioso en los filipin@s es que varios de ellos tienen nombres "españolizados" como Juan Pérez o Carmen Alcántara pero tienen los rasgos de personas del lejano oriente que facilmente serian confundidos y tratados de "chinos" en latinoamerica.

iiiLA CIUDAD!!!

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:)

Feliz año nuevo a partir de las Filipinas!

Y como le hacen para ubicar a sus muertos?