Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Manila, Philippines

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 9.4 km
Ascend 169 m
Descend 170 m

Explore Manila in Philippines with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in ManilaIndividual Sights in Manila

Sight 1: Manila Metropolitan Theater

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Manila Metropolitan Theater

The Manila Metropolitan Theater, also known as the Metropolitan Theater, abbreviated as the MET, is a historic Philippine Art Deco building located in Plaza Lawton in Ermita, Manila. It is recognized as the forefront of the Art Deco architectural style in the Philippines.

Wikipedia: Manila Metropolitan Theater (EN)

509 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Mehan Garden

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Mehan Garden is an open space in Manila, Philippines. It was established in 1858 by the Spanish colonial authorities as a botanical garden, called the Jardín Botánico, outside the walled city.

Wikipedia: Mehan Garden (EN)

1717 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 3: Paco Park

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The Paco Park is a recreational garden and was once Manila's municipal cemetery built by the Dominicans during the Spanish colonial period. It is located on General Luna Street and at the east end of Padre Faura Street in Paco, Manila, Philippines.

Wikipedia: Paco Park (EN), Website

1737 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 4: Rizal Park Flag Pole

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Rizal Park Flag Pole patrickroque01 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Independence Flagpole or the Philippine National Flagpole is a 45.72 m (150.0 ft) flagpole located near the Rizal Monument in Rizal Park in Manila, Philippines. It is the highest flagpole in the country.

Wikipedia: Independence Flagpole (EN)

728 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Manila Ocean Park

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The Manila Ocean Park, also known as Ocean Park, is an oceanarium in Manila, Philippines. It is owned by China Oceanis Philippines Inc., a subsidiary of China Oceanis Inc., a Singaporean-registered firm. It is located behind the Quirino Grandstand at Rizal Park.

Wikipedia: Manila Ocean Park (EN)

939 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: National Planetarium

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The National Planetarium, also known as the National Museum Planetarium, was a planetarium owned and operated by the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila. It was a 16-meter (52 ft) dome located in Rizal Park between the Japanese Garden and Chinese Garden on Padre Burgos Avenue in the central district of Ermita. It opened on October 8, 1975.

Wikipedia: National Planetarium (Manila) (EN)

1124 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 7: Museo de Intramuros

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Museo de Intramuros is an ecclesiastical museum operated and managed by the Intramuros Administration. It is located at the reconstructed San Ignacio Church and Convent within the historic walled area of Intramuros in Manila, Philippines.

Wikipedia: Museo de Intramuros (EN)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Manila Cathedral

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The Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, commonly and popularly known as the Manila Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Manila. It is located in Intramuros, the historic walled city in Manila, Philippines, and is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the principal patroness of the country.

Wikipedia: Manila Cathedral (EN), Website

411 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Fort Santiago

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Fort Santiago, built in 1571, is a citadel built by Spanish navigator and governor Miguel López de Legazpi for the newly established city of Manila in the Philippines. The defense fortress is located in Intramuros, the walled city of Manila.

Wikipedia: Fort Santiago (EN)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Plaza de Armas

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Plaza de ArmasJorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia / CC BY 2.0

The Plaza de Armas is a public square in Intramuros, Manila. The central plaza of Fort Santiago, it is one of three major plazas in Intramuros, the others being the central Plaza de Roma outside the fort grounds, and Plaza Moriones, a larger plaza outside Fort Santiago which was once a military promenade before it was closed in the 1863 earthquake that devastated Manila. While Plaza Moriones is outside the walls of Fort Santiago, both plazas are often misconstrued for the other.

Wikipedia: Plaza de Armas (Manila) (EN)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Plaza Moriones

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Plaza Moriones patrickroque01 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Plaza Moriones is a public square in Intramuros, Manila. Located in front of the entrance to Fort Santiago, it is one of three major plazas in Intramuros, the others being Plaza de Roma located beyond the fort's grounds, and the Plaza de Armas located inside the fort, to which it is often misconstrued for.

Wikipedia: Plaza Moriones, Intramuros (EN)

605 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Plaza Mexico

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Plaza Mexico

Plaza Mexico is a historic riverside square in Manila, Philippines, located at the west end of Magallanes Drive and Riverside Drive in Intramuros bordering the Pasig River in the north. It is surrounded by the Aduana Building on the south, the Bureau of Immigration Building on the east and the ruins of the Bastión de Maestranza and Puerta de Almacenes on the west. The Pasig River Ferry has a station also named Plaza Mexico located northeast of the square behind the Immigration building. The square was named Plaza Mexico in 1964 to commemorate the 4th centenary of the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi and Andres de Urdaneta from New Spain (Mexico) and the historic Manila-Acapulco galleon trade relations between the two nations that lasted 250 years.

Wikipedia: Plaza Mexico (Manila) (EN)

697 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: José Rizal

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José Rizal

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a national hero of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.

Wikipedia: José Rizal (EN)

69 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Ho Chi Minh

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Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician. He served as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and as president from 1945 until his death, in 1969. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he was the Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, the predecessor of the current Communist Party of Vietnam.

Wikipedia: Ho Chi Minh (EN)

66 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Kaysone Phomvihane

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Kaysone Phomvihane image comes from the Romanian National Archives / Attribution

Kaysone Phomvihane was the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992. After the Communists seized power in the wake of the Laotian Civil War, he was the de facto leader of Laos from 1975 until his death. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic from 1975 to 1991 and then as the second President from 1991 to 1992.

Wikipedia: Kaysone Phomvihane (EN)

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