Intramuros walk tour

August 19th, 2007
-->

At last, I finally made it to Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila! After all these years and the countless times that I’ve been around in the former walled city, I never imagined, until now, that Intramuros is not Fort Santiago.

Hehehe, right under my nose the impressive entrance that, for a while, I was clueless of where actually this can be seen stood infront of me, restored to its former form after it was destroyed during the battle for Manila in the last world war.

The top part with the image of St. James (Santiago) riding a horse over his enemies is more or less the same with the facade carving found in the stone church of Paete, Laguna.

Read more.

Tags: ,

Search

 

Leave a Reply

ss_blog_claim=6b260ab1e40b47935a23dd4532d29369