Ateneo Municipál de Manila

One of the oldest and the first Jesuit University in the Intramuros, the Ateneo Municipál de Manila or also know now as Ateneo de Manila University.

1909 college side view ateneo Intramuros

Anu nga ba ang kasaysayan ng unibersidad? Paano nakatulong ang unibersidad? Sinu ang mga promeninteng to na nag-aral sa paaralan na ito?  Anu na ang itsura ng unibersidad ngaun?

According to Intramuros Site ;  Turned over to Jesuit administration by the city of Manila in 1859, the Ateneo Municipál was a school for boys. Initially, the Jesuits hesitated taking charge of the school as they were returning to the Philippines after more than eight decades of absence to take charge of the Mindanao missions. (The Jesuits were expelled from the Philippines in 1768). The instructions they received stipulated that they were to ask explicit permission from higher superiors should they commit themselves to education. The city council prevailed upon the Jesuits to take charge of the school then called Escuela Pia. With the necessary permissions secured, Fr. José Cuevas accepted the school and in December 1859, the Jesuits began instruction in a modest building along Arsobispado St. near the archbishop’s residence.

The Tourism’s Clamshell 1 (The Ateneo Municipál de Manila Now 2012 )

Founded and supported by the city, the school was allowed to bear Manila’s coat of arms. The institution began as a boarding school but started accepting day boarders. Her illustrious alumnus, José Rizal, began his studies as a day boarder and only in his second year did he become an interno or boarder.

This school was later expanded with the addition of a preparatory college that prepared students for studies in the university, offering such courses as pre-law, surveying and mechanics.

From 1879-1888, the college church of San Ignacio was built beside the Casa Mision and on a piece of property cut from the archbishop’s own garden. The city council allowed the Jesuits to build a bridge over Anda to connect the Casa Mision, which was their residence with the school and dorm.

At the turn of the century a third floor was added to the school buildings and in the early 20th an elaborate entrance was designed and executed by Isabelo Tampingco. A fire that ravaged the southwestern quadrant of the city in 1932 damaged the Ateneo. The fire occurred at night, and the student boarders and the Jesuits had to save as much as they could of the Ateneo. The student boarders moved to Ermita, where the Jesuits had built the Escuela Normal de San Francisco Xavier for the education of teachers and had transferred the Manila Observatory.


During World War II, the Ateneo moved its quarters to different parts of the city while trying to maintain a semblance of normality. By the end of the war, the buildings at Ermita, along the road now named after the Jesuit founder of the Manila Observatory, Fr. Federico Faura, was in ruins. In 1951, the Jesuits transferred the Ateneo to Loyola Heights, in Quezon City, where it has remained. In 1959, Ateneo became a university.

The Ateneo archives in Quezon City preserves documents and pictures relating to the Ateneo in Intramuros, among them are award-giving programs which list prominent Ateneo alumni of the Spanish era like José Rizal. A Tampingco screen saved from the San Ignacio church, decorated with carvings in the round of acanthus leaves and braided rope, is in the Ateneo’s Rizal Library.

Here some of my shoot at Ateneo Municipál de Manila.

 The Ateneo de Manila Marker

View from Santa Lucia

Here some of the old house you will see at Ateneo Amenities 

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San Ignacio Church - Intramuros

Isa sa mga una at lumang simbahan na makikita loob ng Intramuros ang San Ignacio Church, ngunit sa kasamaang palad ang simbahan na ito ay nasira dahil sa nagdaang digmaan noong 1945.

Anu nga ba ang naging papel ng simbahan na ito sa loob ng Intramuros?

Sinu ang nagpatakbo ng simbahan na ito?

Ayon sa blog site ng Intramurosmanila ;

The church (neo-classical in style with two towers) was built by the Jesuits in 1889. The famous Filipino sculptor Isabelo Tampingco and his students worked on the lavish woodwork on its interior. However, it was greatly destroyed during the war and was left in ruins to date. At one time it became the E.J. Neil warehouse. Currently, there is an archaeological excavation at the site of its ruins, it is said that San Ignacio Church will be the future site of Museo de Intramuros that will house the religious collection of Intramuros Administration.

Photo credit to traveleronfoot

Noong pumunta ako dito ay hinahanap ko ang statue na ito ngunit sa kasamaang palad di ko na ito nakita.

Ito na siya ngaun ( May 2012)

Oh before i forget the Statue symbolize the first five religious orders to arrive in the Philippines,

the Augustinians, the Franciscans, the Jesuits, the Dominicans and the Recollects.

Here some of  my shoot at San Ignacio Church

San Ignacio Church now in under the archaeological excavation

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Philippine - Mexican Marker Plaza

Isa sa mga di pinapansing Plaza sa loob ng Intramuros ang Philippine - Mexican Marker Plaza o mas kilala bilang Plaza Mexico.

Actually di ko alam kung anu ang kasaysayan na bumabalot dito sa Plaza Mexico pero dahil Technology age na tayo tinanong ko si uncle google about this one.

At according to Habagatcentral ;  Called as Plaza Mexico, this place–the banks of Pasig River in Intramuros Manila–has been the original port of call of the fabled galleons of the past. Indeed, the 270 years of galleon trade that became one of the Spanish Empire’s economic machinery and an event that triggered globalization into a whole new level.

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Fray Andres de Urdaneta started their expedition towards the Philippines on November 21,1564–more than 20 years after Magellan was killed in Cebú, and eventually started the Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines that lasted for more than three centuries. And it was Fray Andres de Urdaneta that discovered the tornaviaje–the route back to Nueva España or México which would eventually start the galleon trade.

Here the  Marker at Barra de Navidad in Mexico

Photo credit to Ezequiel Candelario of Panoramio.com

See the different between Manila and Mexico marker.

Here some of the my shoot at Plaza Mexico.

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Plaza España - Intramuros

Isa sa mga Plaza na makikita sa loob ng Intramuros ang Plaza de España o Plaza España.

Anu nga ba ang kasaysayan ng plazang ito sa Intramuros?

According to traveleronfoot: The plaza was first known as Plaza Aduana. In 1897, the colonial government named Plaza de los Martires de la Integridad dela Patria in honor of the Spanish soldiers who died during the Philippine Revolution. The present name was given by the American in 1902.

In 1982, the Intramuros Administration restored the plaza and in 2000 it was renovated with the statue of King Philip II. The statue was unveiled by the Spanish monarch Queen Sophia as part of the closing activities of Philippine Independence Centennial.

Philip II of Spain Statue

And who he King Philip II? According to Wikipedia: Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II; Portuguese: Filipe I ; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598) was the King of Castile, Aragon, and Portugal. He was also king of Sicily and Naples as Philip I. During his marriage to Mary I, he was King of England and Ireland.He was lord of the Seventeen Provinces from 1556 until 1581, holding various titles for the individual territories such as duke or count.

 Marker at Plaza Espana

Also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), he ruled one of the world's largest empires which included territories in every continent then known to Europeans.

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Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Isa sa mga pinakalumang colegio na makikita sa makasaysayang Intramuros ay ang  Colegio de San Juan de Letran o mas kilala bilang Letran.

One of the oldest secondary institution in Asia

Anu ang ambag nito sa kasaysayan ng edukasyon ng Pilipinas? Sino ang nagtayo?

Here some short history about the Letran according to http://en.wikipedia.org/ The name San Juan de Letran is derived from the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, considered as the Mother Church of Christendom.Early in the history of the colegio, its chapel was granted many of the privileges enjoyed by the major basilica. Saint John the Baptist, for whom the basilica is named, is the patron saint of the Colegio.
The college was originally founded by Don Juan Geromino Guerrero in 1620, a retired Spanish officer and one of the Knights of Malta, in Intramuros as 'Colegio de Niños Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran. The school was intended to educate and mold orphans to be good Christian citizens.
Around the month of May in 1632, Fray Diego de Santa Maria, O.P. arrived at the Sto. Domingo convent from Spain via Mexico. He was officially assigned to this same convent on April 23, 1633 and was given the task of conventual porter. He founded the Colegio de Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo. As Don Guerrero grew old, the two schools were fused together, and in 1706, the Provincial Chapter of the Dominicans in the Philippines decided to adopt officially the name Colegio de San Juan de Letran in memory of its first founder, Don Guerrero.

**The old facade of the school of San Juan de Letrán

My shoot at Letran 2012

The college was founded in 1620. Colegio de San Juan de Letran has the distinction of being the oldest college in the Philippines and the oldest secondary institution in Asia. It is owned and administered by the friars of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) of the Philippine Dominican Province. The school has produced Philippine presidents, revolutionary heroes, poets, legislators, members of the clergy, jurists, and it is also one of the only Philippine schools that has produced several Catholic saints who lived and studied on its campus. The school's patron saint is St. John the Baptist while its patroness is Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. The campus contains two statues, representing the two foremost alumni in the fields of secular and religious service: former Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and Vietnamese Saint Vicente Liem de la Paz.

Letran as of now.

Letran has programs in Business, Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Digital Arts, Communication Arts, Accountancy, Engineering etc. The colleges are divided into six departments: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), College of Business Administration and Accountancy (CBAA), College of Education (CoEd), Institute of Communication (iCOMM), Institute of Information Technology (iIT), and College of Engineering (CoE). The Colegio has successful athletic programs, particularly in basketball, football (soccer)|football, volleyball, taekwondo, and tennis. Through the years Letran has produced numerous athletes that have donned the national colors (especially in basketball) in international events like the Olympics, Asian Games, Southeast Asian Games, Jones Cup, and FIBA World Championship. Letran is a long-time member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Here some of the shoot at Letran.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran Seal Logo

St. John the Baptist Building

One of the interesting seal of Letran

 Letran Symbol CL

Letran Tower Clock

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National Waterworks And Sewerage Authority Building

Isa ito sa mga mahahalagang ambag sa kasaysayan ng Metro Manila ang National Waterworks And Sewerage Authority Building.

Anu nga ba ang National Waterworks And Sewerage Authority? Anu ang naging ambag nito sa kasaysayan?

Narito ang ilan sa mga sagot, sa mga tanung na iyan.

This building in Manila once housed the National Waterworks And Sewage Authority (NAWASA) and is now a hall of justice.

According to http://en.wikipilipinas.org/,  In 1878, Spanish Philanthropist Francisco Carriedo y Peredo donated funds to laid out in old Manila the first water system in the Philippines. It was called the Carriedo System. The construction of a water system delivered 16 million litters of water per day to 300,000 people. By 1909, the capacity of the system was increased to 92 million liters per day by the addition of pumping facilities and the construction of Wawa Dam. The name of the system evolved from Manila Water Supply System in 1908 to Metropolitan Water District in 1919. During the 1920s, Ipo Dam was created using water resource from the Angat basin. The capacity was increased in 1938 to 200 million liters per day for an urban population of 900,000 people. In 1954, its name was changed to National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA). After 18 years of service the government changed its name to Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS), by which it is known to this date. From a national agency, the MWSS by virtue of its charter was tasked to control over all waterworks and sewerage system in a service area including the National Capital Region, the entire province of Rizal and part of the Province of Cavite, of a territory of more then 200,00 hectares.

NAWASA Seal

One of the art design in the building.

On before i forgot, this water system was  oldest system in Asia.

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Palacio del Gobernador

Isa sa mga interesadong gusali na makikita sa loob ng makasaysayang Intramuros ang Palacio Del Gobernador.

Palacio del Gobernador is located infront of the Plaza de Roma in Intramuros.

Anu nga ba ang kasaysayan ng gusaling ito?

Ayon ulit sa Intramuros Administration Site; Residence and office of the governor general. Although the site for the governor’s palace facing the Plaza Mayor had been determined early on, no structure was built on it until the late 17th century. In the beginning, the governor’s residence was apparently built nearer Fort Santiago, facing Plaza Militar.

View from  Plaza de Roma 

The palace was rebuilt at its present site by Gov. Gen. Fausto Cruzat y Góngora (1690-1701) following an atrial plan, divided by a wing that bisected the open atrium. The southern half housed the governor’s residence on the superior floor and the Secretaría de Gobierno on the lower floor, while the northern half housed the Real Audiencia or Supreme Court. The Audiencia occupied the northern wing until it acquired a building of its own in 1788.

In 1850, Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria gave the palace a new façade in the Neoclassical idiom. The earthquake of 1863 damaged the palace. Plans to restore it were abandoned when another earthquake in 1880 struck Manila. By then the governor had transferred residence to Malacañang in the San Miguel district, upstream of the Pasig.

The Old Manila Seal

The building was in ruins until its remaining walls were integrated into 14-story building, called Palacio del Gobernador. The structure houses government offices and the Intramuros Administration.

Palacio del Gobernador building design.

Presently, it's where the COMELEC office is located.

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The Ayuntamiento

At dahil nagphotowalk na rin ako lubos-lubusin ko na nga di ba?

Isa sa mga exciting part dito s aking pagphotowalk ay ang ilan sa mga gusaling ibinabalik sa dating ayos at postura nito at ito ay walang iba kung di ang Ayuntamiento.

Anu nga ba ang kahalagahan ng Ayuntamiento sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas o ng Maynila?

Anu ang kasaysayan nio.

Narito ang ilan sa mga sagot sa mga katanungan na iyan.

The Ayuntamiento in 1902 - Photo courtesy of the University of Michigan Library

The Ayuntamiento in 2010

My Ayuntamiento shoot in 2012

According to Intramuros Administration Site; Ayuntamiento Aka Casas Consitoriales or Cabildo, the building was roughly equivalent to city hall. Its northern wing housed the cabildo or city council composed of alcalde and the regidores (mayor and councilor). It also had other offices including that of the governor general. A jail was part of the structure.

Although Legazpi had mapped out a site for the casas consistoriales no structure was built until the incumbency of Gov. Gen. Francisco Tello, who begun construction around 1599. In Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las islas Filipinas (1607) the building is described as made of cut stones, monumental and pleasing. The first floor housed the courts and jail; the second the administrative offices, a chapel, and archives. The building, probably just a single wing, may have been damaged by the earthquakes of 1645 and 1658 because a document of 1684 requests for funds to rebuild. Meanwhile, the city council met in a house rented from the Jesuits’ Colegio de Manila.

On 31 January 1735, the corner stone for a second building was laid. Completed in 1738, this building survived well into the 19th century when the 3 June 1863 earthquake damaged it heavily. This 18th century building is documented by a painting by Karuth, an engraving, an elevation plan, and a photograph of it in ruins. The second Ayuntamiento had a central clock tower above its façade and two symmeterical wings. Bulbous wrought iron balconies decorated the second story and a covered arcade characterized the first floor.

Ayuntamiento on going construction

  

The architect Eduardo Lopez Navarro was commissioned to design the third Ayuntamiento. Construction begun on 29 April 1879 but had to stop because of an earthquake in 1880. Navarro’s plans were revised to make them more structurally sound and in 4 April 1881 work continued. Another stoppage occurred on 21 March 1885. The building may have been completed not much later because by the turn of the century, Juan Hervas was commissioned to redesign the vestibule.

Navarro planned the third Ayuntamiento in the Neoclassical idiom, opting for severity and well proportioned members. The quadrilateral structure was built around an atrium. Hervas’s renovated vestibule had a harlequin floor of black and white marble, an elegant staircase decorated with a wrought iron balustrade.

Ayuntamiento balcony

The staircase lead to the upper floor where mayor’s office was located. There was a waiting room for men and another for women who had business to transact with city hall. The rooms were furnished in the overstuffed Victorian manner with paintings by Spanish and Filipinos, bentwood Vienna chairs, and bric a brac. The city chapter’s session hall had a ceiling painted with allegorical figures and glass chandeliers imported from Europe. The most famous feature of the building was its ceremonial “Marble Hall.” This rectangular room, with a white marble floor, had a coffered ceiling from which hung glass and brass chandeliers. It was an elegant hall for the social events of Manila’s elite.

Ayuntamiento Seal

In the 20th century, the Ayuntamiento earned the sobriquet “Marble Palace,” because of its generous use of this material. The Ayuntamiento was used as the meeting place for the Philippine Assembly convened in 1907.

Ruined by the bombardment of Manila in 1945 it has never been restored. The ruins of the Ayuntamiento stands on the eastern side of Plaza Roma.

Summary list

• The Philippine's most historic civic building.
• The 1st City Hall of Manila
• Office of the Governor General
• Home of the first Congress, first Senate and first Supreme Court
• Ancestral home of the CSC,DOTC,DepEd,DOF,DOJ,DOH, etc.
• Spain's grandest architectural legacy to the Filipino people.

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 Office inside the Ayuntamiento with the "Blood Compact" Painting of Juan Luna at the rear. 

One of the rooms inside the Ayuntamiento

Right now the Ayuntamiento is nearing completion , the contractor is doing  the exterior finishing while the interior is nearly completed. There building will be occupied of  Bureau of the Treasury.

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