Intramuros: THE WALLED CITY

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Mission of the project

Our project aims to educate our fellow Filipinos and encourage them to understand the details and importance of one of our oldest cultural sites here in our country, the Walled City: Intramuros. With our appealing articles telling the tales of the landmark that has withstand the test of time. It remains a window to the past, preserving our way of life for the future generations to see.

Intramuros

Intramuros is the old walled metropolis placed in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The name, from the Spanish phrase meaning “inside partitions,” refers back to the fortified metropolis based on the mouth of the Pasig River quickly after 1571 through the Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi. Intramuros, aleven though officially situation to the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico City, have become the capital of the New Spanish island dominion and flourished for the duration of the seventeenth and 18th centuries. The 146 acres (fifty nine hectares) inside the authentic 20-foot- (6-metre-) thick partitions incorporate Manila Cathedral, Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church, the University of the City of Manila, and different monuments to the Spanish colonial duration. Urban congestion for the duration of the past due nineteenth and early twentieth centuries step by step encircled the web website online (the moat turned into crammed in 1905) and wore down and changed the extraordinary Spanish colonial structure with authorities offices. In 1944 U.S. bombing finished the discount of the metropolis to rubble. The web website online turned into cleared after World War II, however reconstruction proceeded slowly. The pentagonal partitions, seven gates, and small plazas that distinguish Intramuros from the encircling Malay and Americanized districts of Manila had been restored, collectively with some duration houses.


https://www.britannica.com/place/Intramuros

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