Romeo J. Macaraig Jr.

H-283/2nd Yr/BSI-TTM
TOUR GUIDING

MANILA CITY TOUR

 Manila North Cemetery
 Cementerio del
Norte formerly
known also as
"Paang Bundok”
 which measures 54
hectares
 is considered the
biggest and one of
the oldest
cemeteries in Metro
Manila
 Manila North Cemetery
 Beside it are two other
important cemeteries,
namely the La Loma
Cemetery and the
Manila Chinese
Cemetery
 Is notable because of
the numerous families
living inside the more
commodious
mausoleums
 Manila North Cemetery
 The cemetery is owned  located between
by the Manila city Blumentritt Street
government and has and A. Bonifacio
initiated an expansion Avenue in Manila
program to build more  Some notable
"apartment tombs" and burials are:
a crematorium
 Manila North Cemetery
is actually home to
around 10,000
residents
 La Loma Lechon
 Touted as the lechon capital
of the Philippines (this will
surely warrant a lot of
comments from our Cebuano
friends), La Loma is a district
in Quezon City where they
prepare all these mouth-
watering lechon (spit-roated
pig)
 Mila's, Mang Tomas, Ping-
Ping - some of the popular
names when it comes to
lechon baboy (and baka,
manok.)
 La Loma Lechon
 It's said that it was  After a day's worth of
Mang Tomas who betting, some of the cockpit
started this industry fanatics would buy pork
way back in the early from him and ask for it to be
'50s roasted to serve as their
 At that time, Mang pulutan (finger food that
Tomas was only selling usually accompanies beer
pork around his drinking)
neighborhood  In the long run, he decided
 His house was in front to just sell roasted pork.
of the La Loma Cockpit And the rest, as they say, is
Arena history
 Lacson Underpass
 The first pedestrian
underpass in Asia
 It has been rehabilitated as
part of the “Buhayin ang
Maynila” a redevelopment
project of Mayor Jose L.
Atienza
 Officially named as the
Arsenio H. Lacson Underpass
 Commonly known as Quiapo
Underpass
 Technically under the Quezon
Boulevard
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex
 The National Sports
Complex of the
Philippine
 located on Pablo
Ocampo St.
(formerly Vito Cruz
St.), Malate, Manila
 It is named after the
country's national
hero, José Rizal
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex
 Formerly the Manila  It was destroyed during
Carnival Grounds World War II, and
 the RMSC was built reconstructed in 1953
in 1934 for the Far for use in the 1954
Eastern Asian Games
Championship  The National Stadium,
Games, a precursor the centerpiece of the
to the Asian Games sports complex, has a
 The complex was maximum seating
renovated in 2005 capacity of 30,000
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex
 The complex also houses
the administrative office
of the Philippine Sports
Commission, and
quarters for the Philippine
national athletes
 Tim Henman came to the
tennis center where he
plays against Michael
Tebbutt
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex
 The Rizal Memorial
Track and Football
Stadium simply
known as the Rizal
Memorial Stadium
since it is the main
stadium within the
Rizal Memorial Sports
Complex
 Will be converted to a
football stadium
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex
 On 4 July 1966, the  The combined
Rizal Memorial attendance was
Stadium hosted two 80,000 with the
soldout concerts evening concert
The Beatles held in registering 50,000
Manila and was one paying audience
of only two cities in and became The
Asia they have ever Beatles' second
played in. biggest concert ever
 Quiapo Church
 Officially known as
Minor Basilica of the
Black Nazarene
 a Roman Catholic
church located in the
District of Quiapo,
Manila
 one of the most
popular churches in
the country
 Quiapo Church
 Also known as St.
John the Baptist
Parish
 the church at present
belongs to the
Archdiocese of Manila
 holds a weekly novena
every Friday and is
attended by thousands
of devotees
 Quiapo Church
 In 1899, the third
church was
inagurated
 In 1928, another fire
damaged the
building
 rebuilt by architect
Juan Nakpil
 An expansion was
done in the 1980s
 Quiapo Church
 home to the Black
Nazarene, a much
venerated statue of
Jesus Christ which
many people believe
has miraculous
attributes
 This crucifix was carved
in Mexico and was
brought to the
Philippines from Mexico
by Spanish galleon in
1767
 Quiapo Church
 On January 9, the
parish commemorates
the "TRANSLACION",
or the transfer of the
image from Luneta
(formerly Bagumbayan)
to Quiapo. This event is
participated by Millions
of Devotees while
Quiapo Church holds
Novena of Masses
before the event
 Quezon Bridge
 built in the 1930’s
replaced the aging
Colgante Foot Bridge
 commonly known as
"Quiapo Bridge"
 opened in 1939 in
honor of Manuel L.
Quezon
 Last major structural
repair was in 1996
 First suspension bridge
in Asia
 Metropolitan Theater
 Aka “MET”
 an art deco building
designed by the
Filipino architect
Juan M. Arellano
 inaugurated on
December 10, 1931,
with a capacity of
1670 (846 orchestra,
116 in loge, and 708
in balcony)
 Metropolitan Theater
 The City of Manila, with
the help of the National
Commission on Culture
and the Arts (NCCA)
recently finished a plan
of the rehabilitation of
the theater
 The theater is located
on Padre Burgos
Avenue, near the
Manila Central Post
Office
 Metropolitan Theater
 The theater was again
closed in 1996 due to
ownership disputes
between the city
administration and the
Government Service
Insurance System
(GSIS)
 The MET is one of the
few remaining Art
Deco structures in the
country
 Metropolitan Theater
 During the liberation
of Manila by the
United States and
Filipino forces in
1945, the theatre
was severely
damaged, losing
some of its roofing
and walls battered
 Metropolitan Theater
 After reconstruction
by the Americans it
gradually fell into
disuse in the 1960s
 In the following
decade it was
meticulously
restored in 1978 but
again fell into decay
 Manila Zoo
 Manila Zoological and
Botanical Garden
 Opened in July 25, 1959
 Zoo has a land area of 5.5
hectares and has a
current population of
about 500 animals
 There are 106 species,
among which are 30
different kinds of
mammals, 63 reptile
species and 13 types of
birds
 Manila Zoo
 In addition to popular
zoo occupants such as
elephant, tigers lions
and the hippos
 Manila Zoo also
houses several
endemic and
indigenous species of
animals like the
bearcat, long-talied
macaques and
crocodiles
 Manila Zoo
 very close to the
Harrison Plaza Shopping
Mall. It is between
Mabini and Adriatico
Streets and Pres.
Quirino Ave two blocks
from Roxas Boulevard
 has canteens, souvenir
shops, boating rentals at
the lagoon and several
playgrounds that cater to
children and tourists
 Manila Zoo
 The zoo's most
popular resident is
Mali, an Asian
elephant who arrived
at the zoo as an
orphaned calf
 reputedly the oldest
zoo in Asia, opened
its doors in 1959 on a
5 hectare site
 Manila City Hall
 The city hall is also
located just outside
the oldest and most
historic part of the city
of Manila - the walled
city of Intramuros
 located near Taft
Avenue; near Padre
Burgos; near Padre
Burgos; near
Arroceros; near Lrt
Line 1
 Manila City Hall
 The clock tower is
the largest in the
Philippines
 Designed and
planned by Antonio
Toledo -Diamond
 one of the distinct
landmarks in the
capital city of Manila
 Opened in 1939
 Manila City Hall
 The building's floor
plan had been
dismissed as similar
in shape to a coffin or,
in the other end, like
the shield of Knights
Templar
 The clock tower has
become a trademark
for Manila and the city
hall
 Manila Central Post Office
 located in Lawton
near MET, and
behind it is the Pasig
River
 In 1767, the first
post office was
established in the
city of Manila
 Manila Central Post Office
 the center of Philippine
postal services and the
headquarters of the
then-Bureau of Posts,
was completed in its
present-day Neo-
Classical style in 1926
 it was destroyed during
World War II. It was
rebuilt in 1946, after the
war
 Harrison Plaza
 first opened its doors in
1976
 Harrison Plaza is the
Philippine’s first shopping
mall
 temporarily closed for
renovation between 1982
and 1984
 It covers 75,000 square
meters in the southern
part of Metro Manila,
Harrison Plaza is not hard
to find
 Harrison Plaza
 Comprising of over
180 stores and
service outlets, it
now hosts of over 50
specialty shops,
boutiques, and
eateries, four movie
houses, and one
supermarket
 Divisoria
 is a market district in the
heart of the City of Manila
known for its wide
assortment of low-priced
goods and wholesale and
bargains
 “everything under the sun”
can be found in Divisoria
 “the mecca of value
shopping”
 “the mother of all markets
in Manila”
 Divisoria
 Means “division”
 Aka “DIVI”
 during 1800, this is the
place were Chinese
merchants moved in
because they were
banned from trading
goods in Intramuros
 they found a place
outside the walls now
known as Binondo
 Binondo Church
 located in Manila's
Chinatown at the
western end of
Ongpin Street,
Binondo
 founded by
Dominican priests in
1596 to serve their
Chinese converts to
Christianity
 Binondo Church
 The original building
was destroyed by a
bombardment by the
British in 1762
during their brief
occupation of Manila
at that time
 The current granite
church was
completed on the
same site in 1852
 Binondo Church
 features an octagonal
bell tower which
suggests the Chinese
culture of the
parishioner
 Binondo Church was
greatly damaged during
the Second World War,
although fortunately the
western facade and the
octagonal bell tower
survived
 Binondo Church
 Binondo Church is also
known as the Minor Basilica
of San Lorenzo Ruiz
 It was named after the
sacristan, San Lorenzo
Ruiz, who was born of a
Chinese father and a
Filipino mother, trained in
this church and afterwards
went as a missionary to
Japan and was executed
there for refusing to
renounce his religion
 Binondo Church
 St. Lorenzo Ruiz (c. 1600-  Together with three
1637) was the son of a Dominican priests on the
Chinese father and Filipina ship, he was arrested,
mother; both were Catholic tortured and killed (he died
 He initially served as an altar September 19, 1637, in
boy for the convent of the Nagasaki) without
church and later served as a renouncing his faith
notary and clerk for the  This occurred during
Confraternity of the Holy intense persecution of
Rosary
Christians in Japan in the
 Falsely accused of early Tokugawa period
murdering a Spaniard, in
(although before the
1636 he took refuge on a
persecutions that followed
ship that was sailing to
Okinawa the Shimabara uprising)
 Binondo Church
 San Lorenzo Ruiz  Pope John Paul II
was to be the beatified him on
Philippines' first saint February 18, 1981, in
and he was the first beatification to
canonized in 1989. A occur outside of the
large statue of the Vatican. Lorenzo Ruiz
martyr stands in front was canonized on
of the church October 18, 1987, and
 formally known as was the first Filipino
Our Lady of the Most saint
Holy Rosary Parish
 Pasig River
 a river in the
Philippines that
connects Laguna de
Bay to Manila Bay
 Stretching for
25 kilometres (15.5
mi)
 Its major tributaries
are the Marikina
River and San Juan
River
 Pasig River
 A total of 13 bridges
cross the river
 Crossing the
Napindan Channel
in Pasig City is the
Bambang Bridge
 Downstream is the
C-5 Road Bridge
connecting the cities
of Makati and Pasig
 Pasig River
 The Guadalupe  The Makati-
Bridge between Mandaluyong
Makati and Boundary Bridge is
Mandaluyong carries another bridge that
Epifanio de los connects the two cities
Santos Avenue, the downstream and forms
major highway of the end of Makati
Metro Manila, as well Avenue.
as the Blue Line (Line  Sevilla Bridge
3) of the Metro Rail connects Manila and
Transit (MRT) Mandaluyong
 Pasig River
 The easternmost bridge  The Mabini Bridge
in Manila is the (formerly Nagtahan
Lambingan Bridge in the
Bridge) provides a
district of Sta. Ana
 followed by the Padre
crossing for
Zamora (Pandacan) Nagtahan Avenue,
Bridge between part of the C-2 Road
Pandacan and Santa  Ayala Bridge carries
Mesa, which also carries Ayala Boulevard and
the southern line of the
Philippine National connects Isla de
Railways (PNR) Convalescencia to
both banks
 Pasig River
 Further downstream  the Jones Bridge
are the Quezon Bridge from Binondo to
from Quiapo to Ermita, Ermita.
the LRT Yellow Line  The last bridge near
(Line 1) bridge from the mouth of Pasig
Central Terminal River is the Roxas
Station to Carriedo Bridge from Tondo
Station to Port Area,
 McArthur Bridge from formerly known as
Divisoria to Ermita the Del Pan Bridge
 Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
 Is the central bank of the
Philippines
 The BSP was established
on January 3, 1949, as the
country’s central monetary
authoritywas rechartered
on July 3, 1993, pursuant
to the provisions of the
1987 Philippine
Constitution and the New
Central Bank Act of 1993.
 Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
 The main office of the  The Headquarters of
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Bangko Sentral ng
is situated in Pasay, Metro Pilipinas is located
Manila along A. Mabini St.
 The Security Plant but visible and can be
Complex (SPC), located in accessed through
Quezon City, was formally Roxas Boulevard
established in September about 2.5 kilometers
7, 1978 to safeguard the southeast of
printing / minting / refining, Kilometer Zero
issuance, distribution and
durability of printing nd
minting jobs
 INTRAMUROS
 In Latin it means “within the walls”
 Also known as Ciudad Murada (walled city)
 A nearly 3-mile long of massive stone walls
and fortifications surrounds the entire
district almost completely
 It is the oldest district in Manila
Fort Santiago
 Fuerte de Santiago
 Moog ng Santiago
 A defense fortress
built for spanish
conquistador, Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi
 It is part of the
structures of
Intramuros
 Fort Santiago
 Jose Rizal, our  The fort is shielded by
national hero was 22 feet high walls, it
imprisoned here thickness is 8 feet and
before his execution its entrance is 40 feet
in 1986  It is located at the
 Here you can see mouth of the Pasig
River
the embed onto the  It also served as the
ground in bronze his
premier defense
final footsteps from fortress of the Spanish
his cell government
 Fort Santiago
 During WWII it was  Today it is now a
captured by museum that houses
Japanese Forces the well-preserved
and sustained heavy legacies of the
damaged during the Spanish government
Battle of Manila in  Jose Rizal (Plaza de
February 1945 Armaz), Rizal Shrine
 Was restored by the and the prison
Intramuros dungeons for
Administration criminals used by
during the 1980s the Spanish officials
Manila Metropolitan
Cathedral-Basilica
 A.k.a. Cathedral-
Basilica of the
Immaculate
Conception
 Informally Manila
Cathedral
 The cathedral church
of the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese
of Manila
 Manila Metropolitan
Cathedral-Basilica
 It was consecrated  Located in the
as a minor basilica Intramuros, Manila
in 1981  It was been
 It is dedicated to the damaged and
Patroness of the destroyed several
Philippines, Blessed times since it was
Virgin Mary under built in 1581
the title Our Lady of  The 6th and current
the Immaculate incarnation was
Conception completed in 1958
San Agustin Church
 A Roman catholic
church under the
auspices of The Order
of St. Augustine
 Located inside
Intramuros, Manila
 Completed in 1607
 The oldest church still
standing in the
Phillippines
 San Agustin Church
 No other surviving  It was also classified
building in the as a “Baroque
Philippines has been Churches of the
claimed to pre-date it Philippines”
 Was one of the 4  Had been named a
Philippine Churches national historical
constructed during the landmark by the
Spanish Colonial Philippine government
Period to be in 1976
designated as a
World Heritage Site
Rizal Park
 An urban park located
in the heart of Manila
 It is at the northern
end of Roxas
Boulevard overlooking
the bay
 Its history began as
early as 18th century
during the spanish rule
 Rizal Park
 Was called  The execution of Dr.
Bagumbayan, New Jose Rizal on
Town, during the december 30, 1896
Spanish period whose execution
 It was later called made him the hero
Luneta because it of the Philippine
was shaped like a revolution
small moon, lunette  It was later officially
 Was the site of the renamed Rizal park
most significant in memory of him
moments in history
 Rizal Park
 The political rallies of
 Other significant
moments that happened Ferdinand Marcos and
here are: Corazon Aquino in
 The declaration of the 1986
 The 0-kilometer
Philippine
Independence from marker across the
American Rule on July monument serves as
4,1946 the point of origin or
 The 11-hr hostage crisis kilometer zero to all
on august 23, 2010 other cities in the
Philippines
Quirino Grandstand
 Formerly called
Independence
Grandstand
 Was built primarily for
the transferring of
Legislative Building in
front of the Rizal
Monument just like the
US Capitol in front of the
Washington Monument
 Quirino Grandstand
 It was later  Many important political,
converted to a cultural and religious
permanent events in the post war era
grandstand where have been held here
the presidents of the including the declaration
Philippines of the independence from
traditionally take the US and the mammoth
their oath of office festivities that capped the
and deliver their centennial celebrations of
inaugural address independence from Spain
Cultural Center of the Philippines
 “Sentrong
Pangkultura ng
Pilipinas” in Tagalog
 Or simply CCP
 It is located in Pasay
City and Manila
 Was opened in 1969
to promote and
preserve Filipino
arts and culture
 Cultural Center of the Philippines
 And also to become  Its inauguration gave
the mecca of culture the philippine culture
and arts in Asia and arts a home
 Since it opening it was  It was created by
showcased the President Ferdinand
Bolshoi, Kirov, Royal Marcos in 1966
Danish ballets, as well through executive
as contemporary order no.30
American, French,  It was formally
German and inaugurated on
Philippine Companies setptember 8, 1969
 Cultural Center of the Philippines
 It started with a three-  personalities including
month long inaugural california governor and
festival opened by the Mrs. Ronald reagan
musical Golden Salakot:  Its logo which uses the
Isang Dularawan an stylized letter “K” of the
epic portrayal of Panay Katipunan, each letter
Island represents katotohanan
 The formal inauguration (truth), Kagandahan
was attended by many (beauty), Kabutihan
international (goodness)
Coconut Palace
 A.k.a. Tahanang Pilipino
(Filipino Home)
 It is a palace in Manila
commissioned by the
former First Lady Imelda
Marcos for Pope John
Paul II’s visit in 1981
 It is located on Eduardo A.
Makabenta Sr. St at the
CCP Complex between
Folk Arts Theater and the
Sofitel Philippine Plaza
 Coconut Palace
 The Pope declined  He later claimed that
the offer saying that it was planned ling
it was too before the Pope
ostentatious a place even decided to visit
to stay while in the the country
poverty-striicken  It is a showpiece on
Philippines the versatility of the
 The Palace’s coconut and its
Architect was viability as an export
Francisco Mañosa
 Coconut Palace
 The coconut Palace  Each suites on the
was built on 1978 is second floor is
made of several named after a
types of Philippine specific region of the
hardwood, coconut Philippines and
shells, and a displays some of the
specially engineered handicrafts these
coconut regions produce
lumberapparently
known as Imedla
Madera
Ayala Avenue
 An avenue in
Makati City in the
Philippines
 It is one of busiest
thoroughfares in
Metro Manila
crossing through
the heart of Makati’s
Central Business
District
 Ayala Avenue
 Was aptly named  It was the runway of
Wall Street of the the first airport in
Philippines because Luzon, the Neilsen
of the many Airport
business located  It is also a private
here road
 It is from Epifanio de
los Santos Avenue
(EDSA) to
Metropolitan Avenue
Ninoy Aquino Monument
Paseo de Roxas
 A bronze monument by
sculptor Peter de
Guzman which
commemorates the slain
of former senator and
Filipino hero Benigno
“Ninoy” S. Aquino Jr.
 Was built on the corner
of Paseo de Roxas and
Ayala Avenue
 Ninoy Aquino Monument
Paseo de Roxas
 It is at the  It is depicting Ninoy
southwestern edge of with two bodyguards
the Ayala Triangle who are holding him as
where the Makati if hiding from Ninoy’s
Stocks Exchnge backplausibly because
(south), Gabriela they are afraid to fight
Silang Monuement  The fearless Ninoy
(south southeast) and stood proud that he is
the Filipinas Heritage a Filipino who fought
Library (southeast) for the country’s
are situated democracy
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 Also called the
Redemptorist Church
 Popuarly known as
Baclaran Church
 One of the largest
church in the
Philippines
 It is considered the
most visited church
in Asia
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 It house one of the  Religious devotees
most venerated flock to the
Marian images in sanctuary every
the country, an icon Wednesday in what
of Our Mother of has become known
Perpetual Help, as “Baclaran Day”
which miraculous and participate in a
powers are ascribed novena offered for
 Its annual feast day the Virgin’s
is on June 27 intercession
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 On 1906,  The first Perpetual
Redemptorists Novena was done
arrived in the in Iloilo in the
country to introduce Redemptorist Church
the Mother of in St. Clement in May
Perpetual Help 1946
 The Redemptorists  Father Gerard
are one of the many O’Donnel became the
Catholic first Rector in Baclaran
congregations on 23 June 1948
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 Father Leo English  Before the end of
conducted the first 1949, Wednesday
novena in the became the official day
Baclaran Church of prayer for the Virgin
 The church had a of Perpetual Help,
300 person capacity therefore also making
yet only 70 people it the novena day for
attended the week
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 Slowly Filipinos began  At present, the church
to flock to the church continues to
making it hard to accommodate
accommodate more thousands of devotees,
people, but with the though it is still
help of Filipino uncertain why Filipino
communities’ people choose to hear
donations and mass specifically at the
thanksgiving letters the
Baclaran Church
church was renovated
to help more people
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 The Shrine of Our  The baldachin is the
Mother of Perpetual shrine's centrepiece.
Help in Baclaran has Its columns and
symbolic capitals are made of
significances to the giallo oro and
Catholic faith Bottecino marbles
 The shrine has  The gracefully curving
many parts which altar rails under the
are made with baldachin are made of
exquisite materials white Carrara marble
made for the people
 National Shrine of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
 The shrine’s  . It is 71 feet tall, 350
columns are made feet long and 118 feet
of Black Belgium wide
marble, Moroccan  The church exhibits
onyx and Venetian Modern Romanesque
mosaics architecture
 The Baclaran  Architect Cesar Concio
Church has a total designed the church
floor area of 54,564 structure
square feet
Escolta
 It is no longer
Manila’s Fifth
Avenue
 The capital theater
opened in 1934
when Escolta was
still stylish
 is a famous street in
Manila, Philippines
 Escolta
 The two prominent and  Now the building
still very active office appears on a set of
building are Regina Filipino heritage
Building on the left and stamps
the Perez-Samanilla  During the Spanish
Building on the right. and American
 The Regina Building occupation of the
was once the HQ of Philippines, Escolta
insurance companies was known as the
commercial district of
Manila
 Escolta
 The name is said to  Some of the luxury
have originated from shops and bazaars in
the mid 19th century Manila of the olden
when Spanish days were located in
Captain Generals Escolta such
as Botica
paraded the street
Boie, Beck's, La
with heavy escorts
Estrella del
and people shouting Norte, Squires &
"Escorts“ which later Bingham, Erlanger
became Escolta and Galinger,
and Oceanic
Manila American Cemetery
 Loacted in Fort
Bonifacio, Taguig City
 It has an area of 152
acres (.62 km2) or
615,000 square meters
 Have a total of 17,206
graves
 The largest cemetery
in the Pacific for US
personnel killed during
WWII
 Manila American Cemetery
 It also holds war dead  The headstones are
from the Philippines made of marble
and other allied nations which are aligned in
 Many of the personnel eleven plots forming
whose remains were a generally circular
interred or represented pattern, set among
were killed in New masses of a wide
Guinea or during the variety of tropical
Battle of the Philippines trees and shrubbery
or the Allied recapture  It was designed by
of the islands Gardener A. Dailey
 Manila American Cemetery
 The chapel, a tall stone  Twenty-five large mosaic
structure enriched with maps in these four rooms
sculpture and mosaic, recall the achievements
stands near the center of of the United States
the cemetery Armed Forces in the
Pacific, China, India and 
 Has a total of 3,744
Burma
unknown b
 The Memorial is
 In front of it on a wide maintained by
terrace are two large the American Battle
hemicycles with rooms Monuments Commission
at each end urials
 Manila American Cemetery
 The cemetery is  US burials is 16,636
open daily to the  Philippine burials is
public from 9:00 570
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  WWII burials is
except December 17,206
25 and January 1  It is located on a
 Used for those
prominent plateau
deceased 1941 - visible at a distance
1945 from east south and
west
La Loma Catholic Cemetery
 Campo Santo de La
Loma
 Was opened in 1887
 Located mostly in
the city of manila
and the
northwestern part to
Caloocan
 The oldest cemetery
in Manila
 La Loma Catholic Cemetery
 With an area slightly  They can be no
less than 564 longer be buried in
hectares catholic cemeteries
 In the old days it was like La Loma and
strictly a catholic thus denied of what
church then was considered
 Spanish officials a “decent” burial in
warned Filipino their time of death
rebels that once they
joined the uprising
 La Loma Catholic Cemetery
 Campo santo de la  That leaves it as a crucial
loma is one of the piece of the country’s historical
few sites that heritage of architecture
escaped ruin during  Notable Burials:
the 1945 battle of  Cayateno Arellano
manila where most  Librada Avelino
of the city’s
collection of
 Br. H. Gabriel Connon FSC
architecture was  Josefa Llanes Escoda
destroyed  Pablo Ocampo
Manila Chinese Cemetery
 Second oldest
cemetery in Manila
after La Loma
Cemetery
 Was designated as the
resting place for the
Chinese citizens who
were denied burial in
Catholic cemeteries
during Spanish colonial
period
 Manila Chinese Cemetery
 The cemetery was  Star-atlethe –turned-
witness to many guerilla spy Virgilio
executions during Lobregat
WWII  Chinese Consul
 Among them were General Yang
Girl Scouts Josefa Guangsheng
Llanes Escoda  Apolinarion Mabini
 Literary geniuses was also buried here
Rafael Roces and before his remains
Manuel Arguilla were transferred to
Batangas
 Manila Chinese Cemetery
 Built in the 1850s, this is  Though not as
the oldest Chinese elaborate, the
temple in Manila architecture is still
 Another notable burials reminiscent of those
are Ma Mon Luk and in Fujian province as
Dee Cheng Chuan well as those in
founder of first chinese Singapore and
bank in Philippines, Malaysia with their
China Bank colorful friezes and
uniquely upturned
eaves
 Manila Chinese Cemetery
 Built in 1974, the  Two hundred and
Ruby Tower sixty people died
Memorial is during the collapse
dedicated to the of the 6-story Ruby
Chinese-Filipinos Tower, located near
who perished during the corner of
the deadly August 2, Teodora Alonso and
1968 earthquake Doroteo Jose streets
that hit Manila in Sta. Cruz, Manila
 Manila Chinese Cemetery
 The entire building,  The memorial is
save for a portion of located just in the
the first and second rear of the famous
floors at its northern Lee See Tong
end, was destroyed Martyr's Hall inside
 Allegations of poor the Manila Chinese
design and Cemetery
construction, as well
as use of low-quality
building materials,
arose
Quezon City
 City of stars
 Largest city in metro
manila
 Former capital
(1948-1976)
 Most populous city
in the Philippines
 Popularly known as
QC
 Quezon City
 Was named after  It is not located in
Manuel L. Quezon, and should not be
the former president confused with
of the Quezon Province
commonwealth of which was also
the Philippines who named after the
founded the city and president
developed it to  Having been the
replace Manila as former capital many
the country’s capital government offices
are located here
 Quezon City
 One of them are
Batasang
Pambansa Complex
 Also the main
campuses of the two
noteworthy
universities, Ateneo
de Manila University
and the country’s
national university,
UP Diliman
 Quezon City
 The Distrcits are:  New Manila
 Diliman  Santa Mesa hieghts
 Commonwealth Ave  San Francisco Del
 Tandang Sora Monte
 Loyola Heights  Galas-Santol
 Cubao  The Project Areas
 Bagumbayan  La Loma
 Timog Area
 Novaliches