Visita a centro de Manila. Intramuros y Fuerte de Santiago
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- Distance
- 1.97 mi
- Elevation gain
- 56 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 56 ft
- Max elevation
- 207 ft
- TrailRank
- 51
- Min elevation
- 124 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 24 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 35 minutes
- Coordinates
- 573
- Uploaded
- November 29, 2019
- Recorded
- November 2019
near Intramuros, National Capital Region (Philippines)
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Visit what is left of the Spanish colonial legacy of the historic center of the capital of this beautiful and amazing country.
Unfortunately, there is very little that today endures of all the heritage that this important capital had. After more than 300 years of dominance, this historic center was considered among the most beautiful and important in the world ......... until it was savagely bombed in World War II. Now you have to have a great imagination to assess the little that remains of that lost splendor.
We begin by approaching the reconstructed and modern cathedral. After a short and overwhelming visit (it was full of groups of children from schools), we go back to the street to approach precisely a Memorial that there are of the dead in World War II. Then we continue wandering through what may be the streets where you can still perceive a little the taste of the historical past of this city, I mean the streets Anda, Cabildo, Urdaneta, General Luna .....
We also visit what is considered the best example of colonial architecture in Manila, the Church of San Agustín, with its interesting cloister and its musealized rooms. It is undoubtedly the jewel in the crown (never better). All this we have visited is intramuros, within what was the walled area (good remains of these imposing walls that closed the old town are still preserved). Now we go to the outside of these walls to visit another walled area to the northwest, the Fort of Santiago, a military stronghold that dominated the Pasig River, in which there are several museums that explain the history of the independence of the Philippines, with special emphasis on character of José Rizal, without a doubt the main architect of this interesting episode of our history and especially that of the Philippines.
Unfortunately, there is very little that today endures of all the heritage that this important capital had. After more than 300 years of dominance, this historic center was considered among the most beautiful and important in the world ......... until it was savagely bombed in World War II. Now you have to have a great imagination to assess the little that remains of that lost splendor.
We begin by approaching the reconstructed and modern cathedral. After a short and overwhelming visit (it was full of groups of children from schools), we go back to the street to approach precisely a Memorial that there are of the dead in World War II. Then we continue wandering through what may be the streets where you can still perceive a little the taste of the historical past of this city, I mean the streets Anda, Cabildo, Urdaneta, General Luna .....
We also visit what is considered the best example of colonial architecture in Manila, the Church of San Agustín, with its interesting cloister and its musealized rooms. It is undoubtedly the jewel in the crown (never better). All this we have visited is intramuros, within what was the walled area (good remains of these imposing walls that closed the old town are still preserved). Now we go to the outside of these walls to visit another walled area to the northwest, the Fort of Santiago, a military stronghold that dominated the Pasig River, in which there are several museums that explain the history of the independence of the Philippines, with special emphasis on character of José Rizal, without a doubt the main architect of this interesting episode of our history and especially that of the Philippines.
Waypoints
Religious site
129 ft
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Park
Museum
Archaeological site
Door
River
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