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Walled City of Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

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Intra-muros, literally "within the walls", meaning within the wall enclosure of the city/fortress, describes its structure as it is surrounded by thick, high walls & moats. During the Spanish colonial period (1571-1898), Intramuros was Manila itself.

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    • In 1571, six years after establishing Spanish sovereignty over Cebu, Governor Miguel Lopez de Legaspi moved to Manila, where his forces had just defeated the local ruler, Rajah Suliman. Legaspi ordered the rajah's wooden fort rebuilt in stone. On the left bank of the River Pasig, at the river's mouth, the walled area expanded to enclose an area roughly 600 yards by 600 yards, subdivided into a grid of perhaps three dozen blocks. The enclosed area--logically enough called Intramuros--survived under Spanish rule for 300 years. It survived the American takeover in 1898, too, and was probably at its peak for the international eucharistic congress of 1937. Eight years later, while taking the city back from the Japanese, American forces obliterated Intramuros. Since then, the district has been haphazardly rebuilt: parts look very much like the old Spanish city; other parts have modern buildings whose owners seem oblivious of the history of the place; still other sections have been taken over by squatters who periodically rebuild their shacks whenever the government demolishes them. (Taken from http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?navid=903&picturesize=medium)

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    • 2008.06.24 at 21:07:15 PDT

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