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15 unusual facts about tondo


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.

Bonifacio Drive

North of the river, Bonifacio Drive continues as Marcos Road (Radial Road 10) heading into North Harbor and the district of Tondo.

Conspiracy of the Maharlikas

Being a Moro, he is the son-in-law of Sultan Bolkieh of Brunei; whose first cousin was Martin Pangan, the gobernadorcillo of Tondo"?title=Tundun">Tundun.

Francisco Guilledo

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

Ginebra San Miguel

Founded originally by the late Carlos Palanca, Sr. as La Tondeña, Inc. (LTI) in 1902 in the district of Tondo, Manila (where its name come from), it manufactures a range of products and carries packaging innovations that satisfy the needs of its target consumers.

Jasmin Figueroa

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

Kingdom of Tondo

In 1587, Magat Salamat, one of the children of Rajah Lakan Dula, and with his Spanish enforced name Augustin de Legazpi, Lakan Dula's nephew, and the lords of the neighboring areas of Tondo, Pandakan, Marikina, Kandaba, Nabotas and Bulakan were martryed for secretly conspiring to overthrow the Spanish colonizers.

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

Lester L. Westling, Jr.

He was also the founding Vicar of the Emmanuel Mission, Tondo, Manila.

Manuel Barbeyto

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

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.

Ricky Belmonte

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

Rizal

The provincial territory began with the organization of the Tondo province and Laguna province during the Spanish administration.

Tayuman Street

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

Tondo

Kingdom of Tondo, a kingdom in this area from the 10th century to 1591


Adan Ronquillo

Adan Ronquillo Tubong Cavite... Laking Tondo is a 1993 Filipino film directed by Joey del Rosario starring Filipino actors Bong Revilla, Sheryl Cruz, and Miguel Rodriguez.

Fabián de la Rosa

Fishermen's Huts on Balut Island, Tondo, oil on canvas, Private Collection, USA

Geography of Manila

The Tondo Province annexed to this new district the towns of Cainta, Taytay, Antipolo and Boso-boso, while Laguna contributed the towns of Angono, Binangonan, Cardona, Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla and Jalajala.

Gregorio Perfecto

In 1958, the City of Manila named a secondary school in Tondo, Manila the Gregorio Perfecto High School after the late Justice.

Gregorio Perfecto High School

On September 25, 1958 then mayor Arsenio H. Lacson approved Resolution No. 529 changing Ismar High School to Gregorio Perfecto High School in honor of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Gregorio Perfecto, one of the signatories of the 1935 Constitution who used to represent Tondo in Congress.

Jean Malouel

Malouel's oeuvre on panel remains controversial; the most generally accepted painting of his to survive is the Pietà tondo in the Louvre, the first true tondo of the Renaissance, though this is not accepted by Châtelet.

Jose Balagtas

Balagtas is the director of the movies like Patron (1988) with Dante Varona, Tupang Itim (1989) with Jess Lapid, Jr., David Balondo Ng Tondo (1990) with Ramon Revilla, Magdaleno Orbos: Sa Kuko Ng Mga Lawin (1991) with Eddie Garcia, Pat. Omar Abdullah: Pulis Probinsiya (1992) with Phillip Salvador, and Talahib At Rosas (1994) with Cesar Montano.

Ladislao Diwa

The two became close friends and Diwa later boarded with Teodoro Plata at Bonifacio's house in Tondo, Manila.

Limahong

An expedition of 256 Spaniards and about 2,500 Filipino troops, including the Lakandula of Tondo and his sons, set sail in 59 vessels for Lingayen on the 23rd of March, 1575.

Maureen Larrazabal

Maureen started her film career via sexy-flicked movies such as Ekis (1999), Unfaithful Wife 2 (1999), Bulaklak ng Maynila (1999), Sugo ng Tondo (2000) and Blood Surf (2000).

Mount Hombori

Mount Hombori (Hombori Tondo) is a mountain in Mali's Mopti Region, near the town of Hombori.

Rizal

This consisted of the towns of Antipolo, Bosoboso, Cainta and Taytay from the Province of Tondo; and the towns of Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, Angono, Binangonan and Jalajala from the Province of La Laguna, with the capital at Morong.

Valentín Díaz

Being a resident of Tondo in Manila, he joined the La Liga council that was headed by Andrés Bonifacio, who founded the Katipunan.