🇵🇭 Explore the PHILIPPINES History: Manila’s Walled City of INTRAMUROS #travel #expat #history
Channel: TravellingPensioners
Date: 04/04/2023

Intramuros, the nation’s once-proud city and heart of the capital, was levelled to the ground. By the end of the WWII, only the San Agustin Church and its monastery remained standing within the crumbling walls.Manila in its Heyday

Building began in 1570 on a strategic piece of land — now Fort Santiago — between Manila Bay and the Pasig River, the site of the former palace of the conquered ruler, Rajah Sulayman. Covering just 0.67 square kilometres, the city was designed on a tight grid of streets, surrounded by two moats, guarded by dozens of cannons, and fortified by bulwarks and ravelins.

Intramuros is chock-full of stories.

Inside the walls, Intramuros thrived. Universities, churches and convents sprung up. Intramuros housed the nation’s brightest students, wealthiest families, grandest government offices, and most powerful religious orders.
here was room for barracks and a printing press. Horse-drawn carts rattled down the cobblestone streets. Manila’s elite families entertained in elegant, Spanish-style homes along the parks and plazas, and every Sunday, a procession of well-dressed churchgoers flowed through the city’s eight gates towards the Plaza Mayor and the Manila Cathedral.

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