Intramuros, Manila Set One

Intramuros, Manila

Intramuros is the old Spanish heart of Manila. Heavily bombed during both the Spanish American war of 1898 and during the battle of Manila at the end of the second world war it has lost alot of the buildings that once graced its cobblestone streets but if one is listens ery carefully in the deepest corners of the citidal one can imagine that they are in Sevilla, Madrid, or Cordoba.

Pictures
1. Street kids playing along the four hundred year old walls of Intramuros
2. Walking along the walls of the inner sanctum I was able to snap this shot with no cars or people around. Having been through Espana a little when I was younger I felt just like I was back in Barcelona.
3. Lovers taking a break from reality in the ramparts.
4. Probably the coolest golf course that I have ever seen. Club Intramuros winds its way along the old moat of the city, its eighteen holes go through the walls and battlements of the citidal.
5. The Church of San Augestin, the oldest church in the Phillipenis, the seat of Spanish power for almost four hundred years it was built in 1520 and still operates as a place of worship for the upper class of Manila. In the square in the front of the church where I am taking the picture from the Spanish Inquisition reached even this far corner of the globe as heritics were burned at the stake here.