My Manila

This is the closest I've gotten to the dome of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, better known as the Manila Cathedral a...

T'nalak are woven dreams. T'boli women weave them, keen eyes and hands working together to judge lengths, to transfer patterns ...

The Manila Collectible Co. is a four month old store in historic Intramuros which showcases products from artists and artisans all over th...

The Club Intramuros Golf Course is located just outside the Spanish colonial era 16th century walls of Intramuros , which are barely peek...

The Jose Rizal museum inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros has a replica of the prison cell where the Philippine national hero was incarcer...

The museum inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros dedicated to Philippine national hero Jose Rizal has one of the oldest existing copies of h...

Inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros is a small museum dedicated to Philippine national hero Jose Rizal , who was imprisoned in the fort ju...

The walls of the 16th century Spanish citadel Fort Santiago are so thick, it actually has rooms, tunnels and staircases. Too bad most are ...

I'm not quite sure what he's selling (onions?), but it cannot be easy in Manila's hot and polluted streets. Taken from the co...

A tunnel and stairs provide access from the top of the thick walls of Fort Santiago to the banks of the Pasig River . They would have been...

The wooden relief at the top of the 16th century main entrance of Fort Santiago in Intramuros depicts four natives being trampled under th...

The Spanish era walls of Intramuros are wide enough in certain areas to accommodate a simple stage for public cultural presentations organi...

I had no success trying to find out the name of the artist who created the sculpture in yesterday's post , but in the course of my searc...

This small doorway through the thick walls of Intramuros is called the Puerta Postigo del Gobernador because it was near the Spanish Gover...

After Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal was executed by the Spanish colonial government in 1896, he was buried in the Paco Cemetery with...

Fort Santiago , named after St. James the Greater , the Patron Saint of Spain, was built in 1571, soon after the arrival of Spanish conquist...

Part of the oldest building in Fort Santiago , the brick ruins which stand beside the Rizal Shrine were originally the barracks of Spanish ...

The main facade of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, better known as the Manila Cathedral , has three doorways. The central ...

I have featured many of the beautiful buildings and ruins of the historic walled city of Intramuros , which used to be the city of Manila d...

The Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros is a 1978 reconstruction of the 17th century Spanish Governor-General 's residence and office...