A busy market in Chinatown. Metro Manila encompasses over a dozen cities, but Manila and Quezon City are the biggest, and Makati City is the economic center.
Manila is the oldest, the most established, and the political capital.
Makati is like Manhattan, tall and gleaming and unattainably rich, and gridlocked with traffic. With all due respect then, to the other cities, these three are the most important. Broad spaces and butterflies Downtown Manila shows the marks of American civil design. To see more broad spaces than this, one must consider rear ends at the Iowa State fair. We began our walking tour at Rizal Park, near Manila Bay.