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Traveler Rating
91 reviews 50 travel blogs 336 photos Attraction Type:
Historic site, Park
TravelPod Member ReviewsFort Santiago Manila
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Great history tour
ksuter 4 contributions Toronto, Canada Feb 7, 2012
You can hire a tour guide or just wander, its a beautifll site and home of the Rizal Shrine. Great gardens at the front of the Park.
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Good
reece_and_elle 2 contributions Grays Thurrock, United Kingdom Nov 18, 2011
The place was nice, very good history. Could have spent the whole day here but my girlfriend gets impatient!
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Fort Santiago Manila
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El guatazo de Manila
Luego de estar en la modernidad misma en Malasia y de disfrutar el último día rodeado de cámaras fotográficas, notebooks de última generación y muchos otros adelantos, nos fuimos a Filipinas. Era el destino que habíamos elegido por sobre la India, pensando en que cuando fuera la fecha de ir para allá, estarían en monzón…y ríos de mierda con …
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Intramuros: A Walk Through Time
Intramuros: A Walk Through Time
It's Saturday noon when Macoy, Arnol, and I started walking around the walls of the historic Intramuros. Our jump of point was the Baluarte de San Gabriel in front of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Muralla St.
This Baluarte was built in 1593 while the adjacent college started as an orphanage in … -
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Manic Manila
We stopped off in Manila for 1 night and then we were flying to Cebu the next night.
We went for a few beers with Dean and Stacey and the best thing about it all was that they were cheap!!
Had a look round the old part of the city the next day, it really does have a a big Spanish feel to it. The history of it all was good, we … -
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Fort Santiago
Today we went to Fort Santiago.
This is the oldest Spanish fort in Manila. It was originally built of logs and earth, but destroyed in 1574. It was rebuilt with stone in 1589, damaged in an earthquake, and rebuilt again.
It was the …
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Related BlogsFort Santiago Manila
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Madness in Manila
... 6 or 7p a ride). On Friday we visited the 'Intramuros' section of the city which is the old walled section of the city with Fort Santiago at one end of the town and the oldest stone church in Manila - San Augustin. There was a wedding going on at the ...
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Fort Santiago - Remnant of Spanish Period
... 's fortifications in San Juan, also built by its Spanish colonizer. They surely reminded me of Fort Santiago. Incidentally, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines were the remaining crown colonies of Spain during the signing of Treaty of Paris in the ...
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A true Asian megacity
... . Only a handful of buildings survived the firestorm; over 100000 Filipino civilians were not so lucky. We entered Manila's premier tourist attraction, Fort Santiago, which is fronted by a pretty lily pond and rests at the mouth of the Pasig river. ...
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It's More Fun In The Philippines
PLACES TO VISIT IN THE PHILIPPINES M A K A T I Greenbelt Glorietta Landmark SM Makati M A N I L A Rizal Park Fort Santiago Intramuros (The Walled City) Manila Cathedral Manila Bay Sunset Manila Ocean Park Star City ...
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Manila #1
... still erect and it is possible to navigate a 4.5 km section beginning at the Intramuros Visitors Center (near the entrance of Fort Santiago) if you feel so inclined. Lisa and I wandered through the old city's cobbled streets until we came across ...
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El guatazo de Manila
... en Manila!!!!!!!...vimos además la catedral (estaba cerrada, obvio, como casi todas las iglesias) y entramos al fuerte español (Fort Santiago)…en el cual estuvimos caminando cerca de dos horas, con mucha humedad, pero muy seguros..ahora sí que ...
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Manila
... in the late 16th century. Entry to the city was through gates and drawbridges over a moat that surrounded the city. Fort Santiago, within Intramuros, was built by the Spaniards to protect themselves from the Filipinos they had conquered. Goods brought ...
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Discovering The Historical Past Of Manila
... not get flooded thus making it impossible for me to catch my flight later tonight. When the rain dwindled, I crossed over to Fort Santiago.This is another interesting place. Originally the fort of Rajah Sulayman, then it became the Fort of the Spaniards ...
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A hard working city
... . Still, with a slight limp, and much asking of the locals, we finally found Intramuros and with it, Fort Santiago, and learnt a little of the Philippines long, and at times, very troubled, history. We also took time to look around Manila ...
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Malls galore
... again got the severley busy LRT before walking in the extreme heat around the slightly under whelming Intramuros. We visited Fort Santiago which was relatively interesting but we were just too hot so ashamedly retreated back to the air conditioned mall. ...
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- Father Blanco's Garden
- Intramuros
- San Agustin Church
- Divisoria Market
- Rizal Park
- La Mesa Eco Park
- Quiapo Church
- Binondo
- Paco Park
- Pan de Amerikana
- Antipolo Church
- Avilon Zoo
- Casa Manila
- Chinatown
- Malacanang Palace & Museum
- Taal Volcano
- Malate Church
- Pasig River
- University of Santo Tomas
- Chinese Garden