Intramuros
The walled Spanish city of 1571, with Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church and a walk along the ramparts. The district covers 0.67 square kilometres and is enclosed on every side by its fortifications. It was the seat of the Spanish …
Rizal Park
The park around the monument to José Rizal, where he was executed in 1896. It covers 58 hectares in Ermita, next to Intramuros and facing the eastern shore of Manila Bay. Rizal's remains lie in the stone base of the …
Feast of the Black Nazarene
The Traslacion carried the Black Nazarene from Intramuros to Quiapo Church. 9.6 million people joined, and the procession took 30 hours and 50 minutes, the longest on record.
Binondo
The oldest Chinatown in the world, best walked at lunchtime for dumplings, noodles and hopia. The Spaniards laid it out in 1594 across the Pasig River from Intramuros, as a settlement for Catholic Chinese that the colonial government could keep …
National Museum of Fine Arts
Free to enter, built as the old legislature, and home to Juan Luna's Spoliarium. The neoclassical building was finished in 1921 and held the Congress of the Philippines from 1926 to 1972 and the Senate from 1987 to 1997. It …
San Agustin Church
The oldest stone church in the country, finished in 1607 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with a trompe l'oeil ceiling. It stands inside Intramuros and is in the care of the Order of Saint Augustine. UNESCO listed it in …
Chinese New Year in Binondo
The year of the horse opened on 17 February. Binondo, the oldest Chinatown anywhere, fills with dragon and lion dances, firecrackers and tikoy.
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Araw ng Maynila
The city's day, kept on the feast of St John the Baptist, its patron. Manila was made a city on 24 June 1571. The day is a local holiday.
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