Fort Santiago was first built with wood and mud, but when the Chinese Pirate Lin Feng tried at 1574 and succeeded in sieging the wall, the people decided to rebuilt it but this time out oh cold hard rock, as to not break again. They may have built it out of hard stone, but it will not stand by the end of the war...

Fort Santiago was used as a prison camp by the Japanese in the Cold War. The Americans declared it a shrine of freedom in 1950, but was not yet restored till 1953, as it was before, Now it holds great importance in the hearts of the Filipino not only as a symbol of freedom, but also as a site of many, many historical events, and yet it still stands