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49 unusual facts about Manila


2nd FAMAS Awards

The 2nd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1954 in Life Theater, Quezon Boulevard, Quiapo, Manila.

Aliwan Fiesta

Aliwan Fiesta, which began in 2003, aims to showcase the different Filipino cultures and heritage not only to the people in Metro Manila but also to the rest of the world.

Amada Santos Ocampo

Amada Santos-Ocampso was born in Manila, Philippines, of parents Antonino Santos-Ocampo, Sr., and Juanita Galvez of Manila.

Ang Tundo Man May Langit Din

The novel involves love and romance occurring between individuals that are residing in a poverty-stricken area in Tondo, Manila in the Philippines.

Arthur Angara

He finished his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree at the University of the East in Sampaloc, Manila in 1960, the same year when he passed the Dentist Licensure Examination, in which he was ranked 12th.

Baguio Central University

When Manila is at 35°C or above, Baguio seldom exceeds 26°C at its warmest.

Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children’s Museum has inspired both the Museo Pambata in Manila, Philippines, and Le Musée des Enfants in Brussels, Belgium.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

This expressway will be named Padre Jacinto Zamora Super Highway after Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three martyr priests executed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila during the Spanish Colonical Period.

C-6 will then pass through San Jose del Monte in Bulacan, turn southward and pass through Montalban (also known as Rodriguez), San Mateo, Antipolo, Angono, and Taytay in Rizal province, finally entering Taguig.

Cry of Tarlac

The previous year, eight provinces were put under martial law by the Spanish government in Manila.

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

The location is at the former Perez-Samanillo Compound on 652 Calle Nozaleda in Paco, Manila.

Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga

The presence of Don Bosco in the Philippines began in 1912 when two Salesian priests arrived in the Parish of Nuestra de los Remedios in Malate, Manila.

East–West Economic Corridor

The East–West Economic Corridor is an economic development program initiated in 1998 by the Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion organized in Manila, the Philippines in order to promote development and integration of four Southeast Asian countries, namely: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Francisco Guilledo

While in Iloilo, he befriended a local boxer and together they migrated to Manila, settling in Tondo.

Guam men's national softball team

The 1992 World Championships, the eighth time the event was competed for, was held in Manila.

How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

Brian McKnight & Kyla - "How do You Keep the Music Playing" performed live at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila (2012)

HUMANFOLK

Assembled in the summer of 2008, the introduction of Alegre, Ibarra and Rodriguez at the United States Embassy in Manila spurred a series of musical and social interactions.

James Hamilton-Paterson

His novel Ghosts of Manila (1994) portrayed the Philippine capital in all its decay and violence and was highly critical of the Marcoses - a view he rescinded with the publication of America's Boy (1998), which sets the Marcos regime into the geopolitical context of the time.

Jasmin Figueroa

Jasmin Lanaran Figueroa (born 20 March 1985 in Tondo, Manila, National Capital Region) is an athlete from the Philippines.

Jerome Anthony Watrous

He served for a while as paymaster of the Department of Columbia headquartered in Portland, Oregon before being sent to Manila in the Philippines in 1900.

Jo Kittinger

Jo Kittinger has been an avid speaker over the last 10 years; speaking at everything from major conferences in the States, and as far away as Manila, Philippines, to author visits in local classrooms.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Kerima Polotan Tuvera

The city of Manila conferred on Polotan-Tuvera its Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, in recognition of her contributions to its intellectual and cultural life.

Kirby Higbe

Nonetheless, he stayed in Manila until March 1946, at which point he finally returned to the United States.

Konankuppam

It is said to have been the first place of worship he erected, and when it was completed he went to Madras and asked the Bishop of Mylapore to procure for him a statue from Manila, an image of the virgin, in native dress of Tamil Nadu and bearing the child Jesus in her arms, fashioned after a model he had made.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

Legarda Street

It crosses through the eastern section of the University Belt area in a generally east-west orientation between the junction with Lacson Avenue in Sampaloc and the intersection with Nepomuceno Street and Concepcion Aguila Street in Quiapo.

It heads due west, traversing the southern edge of Sampaloc and skirting the northern boundary of San Miguel.

Makamisa

Hanna Malonzo - Manila-raised daughter of Kapitan Lucas, who returned to Tulig for her aunt's funeral

Manuel Barbeyto

Barbeyto was born in Tondo, Manila, where he was raised by his parents, Inocencio Barbeyto and Catalina Costosa.

Manuel Earnshaw

He was born in Cavite, Philippine Islands, born November 19, 1862; attended the Ateneo de Manila and the Nauti School, Manila, Philippine Islands.

The remains of Manuel Earnshaw has been transferred to San Agustin Church in Manila.

Marcos Road

The highway is an extension of Bonifacio Drive and Roxas Boulevard (Radial Road 1 or R-1) north of the Pasig River running north-south through the Manila North Port area serving the coastal Tondo and Navotas communities.

Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca

In 1825, he was named Governor-General of the Philippines, arriving at Manila in October, and by a royal order also took possession of the intendancy of exchequer.

Martin Teofilo Delgado

He went to school at the Santa Barbara Parochial School and later at the St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, then known as Seminario de San Vicente Ferrer, in Jaro and Ateneo Municipal in Manila.

Pablo Ocampo Street

It runs west-east for about 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles) connecting the southern districts of Malate and San Andres southeast to Makati.

Partas

The latest terminal within Metro Manila was opened in Sampaloc district of Manila City.

Ricky Belmonte

Belmonte was born as Jesse Cruz on December 24, 1947 in Tondo, Manila.

Robert DeCourcy Ward

During 1929, Professor Ward made a tour of the world, stopping in locations such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila to perform scientific studies.

Rosemarie Arenas

She married the late Ramon Arenas, from the old Arenas clan of Manila.

Santa Cruz Bridge

The steel truss bridge was the fourth to span the river connecting the district of Santa Cruz from Plaza Goiti to Arroceros Street in the old city center of Manila.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium

In its over two decades of existence, the consortium has been led by the Board of Responsibles composed of the presidents of the member institutions namely, Adamson University (AdU), De La Salle University (DLSU-Manila), the Philippine Christian University (PCU), St. Scholastica's College (SSC), the Philippine Normal University (PNU), and St. Paul University-Manila (SPUM).

Established in 1974, the IIC is composed of five schools located along Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines.

Tayuman Street

It stretches 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district.

Tirtayasa

Ageng established trade with Spanish Manila for silver and built canal for coconut palm and sugar plantations, among other developments.

Vicente Madrigal

She was responsible for the purchase of the Madrigal property where the old Jai Alai fronton used to stand, as well as buildings near her aunts' mansions on Calle Hidalgo, Quiapo, Manila and its adjacent streets.

He married Susana Paterno y Ramos, who grew up in Pangil, Laguna and was a poor relation to her own Manila relatives, the Paternos of Quiapo and Santa Cruz, Manila.

Yonghe District

Before the city was merged with New Taipei and became a district, it had the highest population density in Taiwan and second in the world (after Manila in the Philippines), with over 41,300 people per square km.


2008 Paris Motor Show

In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York Checker cab, a Chicago Yellow Cab, London Black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Doña Isabel Barreto was honoured in Manila and Quirós was commended for his service and absolved of any responsibility for the killings on Santa Cruz.

Arsenio Laurel

He was among the first champion racers in the early years of organized auto racing in the Philippines, driving his 1954 Studebaker on the oval of the Santa Ana Hippodrome in Manila (when the horses were not running).

Arturo Tolentino

He was a law professor in the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomás, University of the East, University of Manila, Arellano University, FEU, Manila Law College, Philippine Law School, San Beda College and Quezon College.

Azim ud-Din I of Sulu

In Manila, Governor-General Juan de Arechederra, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, gave him a reception befitting a prince of high rank.

Benjamin P. Ablao, Jr.

His parents were both of Filipino heritage, with his father being from the Philippine capital, Manila, and mother from the Philippine "summer capital", Baguio City.

Billy Blanks

Blanks was hired as a bodyguard for lead actress Catherine Bach during the filming of 1988's Driving Force, due to the political unrest present in Manila at the time; he impressed the producers so much, they wrote him into the script.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

When the DREAM road is completed in 2033, C-6 will follow the proposed Metro Manila Tollway route eastward starting from its northern terminus at the North Luzon Expressway in Marilao in Bulacan province (Expressway segment).

Capture of Malolos

General Arthur MacArthur, Jr.'s division advanced to Malolos along the Manila–Dagupan Railway.

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Mrs. Batocabe was then the high school principal of Maryhill Academy on sabbatical for her doctoral studies at De La Salle University, Manila.

Clark Bautista

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Bautista would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

Doctor of Medicine

The Dominicans, under the Spanish Government, established the oldest Medical School in the Philippines in 1871, known as the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (at that time was one with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy, also considered the oldest school of Pharmacy in the Philippines) of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros, Manila.

Don Antonio de Ulloa

Don Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish Navy cruiser that fought at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

DWKC

DWKC may refer to the 2 flagship stations of Radio Mindanao Network both licensed on Metro Manila, Philippines

Emilio Terrero y Perinat

The Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan which constitutes much of the North Main Line today, began construction in July 1887 with the laying of the cornerstone for Tutuban station by Terrero himself.

Ethnic issues in the Philippines

After the destructive raids of various ports and towns including the newly Spanish-established Manila by Chinese pirate Limahong, the colonial government saw the Chinese as a threat and decided to curb the Sangley in the colony by racial segregation and immigration control.

Eugenio Lopez

Eugenio Lopez, Sr., original owner of the Manila Chronicle and founder of Chronicle Broadcasting Network, see DWWX-TV

Exodians

It is also notable that among the 36 seminarians who were expelled from the seminary, four of them came from the Prelature of Ipil, in the western section of Mindanao Island who were sent by then Ipil Bishop Federico Escaler, SJ,who is now retired and residing in Manila.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

FCED decided to focus its assistance to street children and urban poor children and their families in 13 low income Barangays of District V and VI in Paco and Pandacan, in the city of Manila.

Football in the Philippines

Its third project was to upgrade the pitch in the Rizal Memorial Stadium to an artificial turf from August to September 2012, but it was discontinued because Philippine Football Federation President Mariano Araneta said that conducting the 2012 Philippine Peace Cup in Manila would lessen the expenses of the PFF in the event.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

Intramuros Consortium

The Intramuros Consortium, established in 2002, is a non-profit, academic cooperation consisting of four prominent institutions of higher education located in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.

Legarda Street

Legarda Street is a short street located in Sampaloc district in Manila, Philippines.

Letter from Peking

Mei-lan sends letters to Ellizabeth through friends in Manila and Bangkok.

Luis Sánchez de Tagle, 1st Marquis of Altamira

He wielded the greatest influence in the realm as well as outside it as branch members of his family also held great influence in other Spanish colonies such as Peru, Guatemala, Chile leading all the way to the Philippines (the Tagle family AND the Perez de Tagle family whose descendants include Don Fausto Preysler Perez de Tagle of Banco Español-Filipino and his daughter Isabel Preysler), where Manila was one of the greatest commercial hubs of the Spanish Empire.

Mark Salvatus

Graduated Cum Laude at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design, Manila with a degree in Advertising Arts (2003) and awarded Benavidez Outstanding Student Achievement Award in the same year.

Martin de Goiti

The Spanish colonization paved the way for the establishment of Manila as a permanent settlement and capital city of the Spanish East Indies.

Mateo Guez

Shot on location in the vast urban slum of Manila’s Smokey Mountain in the Philippines, the film is a portrait of both the place, and the people who inhabit it.

MTV Supahstar

After successful auditions in Cebu, Davao, Baguio, and Manila, celebrity casting directors Tim Yap, Radha, and Andrew E. finally narrowed down the finalists to 15 talented supahstars-in-the-making and divided them into different roles.

Our Lady of Porta Vaga

Lerena was able to retrieve the precious image of the Virgin from a junkyard where it was thrown by the Japanese invaders and brought it to the Archbishop’s Palace in Intramuros, Manila and later to the vaults of the Philippine National Bank for safekeeping.

Owen Summers

Arriving in Manila in August they accepted the surrender of the Spanish Army of 15,000 soldiers.

Philippine Chinese Baptist Convention

The missionaries settled in Baguio City where they started their work in converting the local Chinese there before eventually establishing churches in Dagupan City, Manila and Davao City in 1952.

Reycard Duet

In July 1966, the duo was one of the opening acts for the Beatles' performance at Rizal Stadium in Manila, along with Dolphy and Panchito and Pilita Corrales.

Roman Catholic Marian churches

The new Immaculate Conception Cathedral was built in Manila, Philippines and the Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria in Tenerife, Spain.

Strong Republic Nautical Highway

The SRNH segment between Manila and Iloilo runs by road to Batangas City, by ferry to Calapan, by road to Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, by ferry to Caticlan (gateway to Boracay, located in Malay, Aklan) and onwards by road to Iloilo City.

Sulu Archipelago

In the second half of the 18th century, Great Britain became a new player in the archipelago After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south and established trading alliances between the Sulu Sultanate and the British East India Company.

The Triumph of Science over Death

A large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of Fernando Calderón Hall of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine along Pedro Gil St. in Ermita, Manila.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Universidad de Manila

A year later, Manila City officials, including Mayor Lito Atienza, initiated the elevation of CCM to a university to promote higher learning and provide more opportunities to Manila youth for a quality education.

University of the Philippines Concert Chorus

Korus was a favorite guest choir among other performing groups like Manila Symphony, Ballet Philippines and Teatro Filipino.

William Leonard Marshall

He has also written two mystery series based in Manila and late-19th-century New York City, the latter featuring City Detective Virgil Tillman – New York City's "first thinking detective" – and his partner, patrolman Ned Muldoon of the Strong Arm Squad.