Centro de Turismo Intramuros

📍Centro de Turismo Intramuros

Great opportunity to brush up on our Philippine History! 🇵🇭 Happy to see contemporary and more modern museums in the country. It is a successful attempt to keep up with the times and other more developed countries. It had been hot outside too, so bonus points it’s airconditioned ;)

Trivia: the name “Manila” originated from a Spanish inquiry about the location of nilad plants (a flowering shrub). Locals believed to have answered “Doon may nilad” which meant “there’s nilad there”. May-nilad >> evolving into “Maynila” and then “Manila” had been since adapted by the Spaniards & the world. Originally “Manila” is just the walled city of Intramuros. However it expanded to cover other ‘arrabales’ (surrounding districts) under American rule.Lue lisää