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Sampaloc is a district of Manila, Philippines.It is referred to as the University Belt or simply called "U-Belt" for numerous colleges and universities are found within the district such as the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest extant university in Asia; the National University, the first private nonsectarian and coeducational institution in the Philippines; the Far Eastern University ...
España Boulevard is infamous for its floods during the rainy season. This is because it serves as a catch basin for runoff water from higher-elevated Quezon City, as Sampaloc was a swamp marsh area. It is common to find people wading in waist-deep floods, especially when a typhoon passes through Manila, causing class suspensions. [4]
Since the Spanish colonial period, Manila has been the center of education in the country, and Intramuros was home to various academic institutions. The first schools in the district were the Colegio de Santa Potenciana founded in 1589, [4] Universidad de San Ignacio in 1590, [5] San Jose Seminary in 1601, the University of Santo Tomas in 1611, [6] the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 1620 ...
Legarda Street is a short street in the Sampaloc district of Manila, Philippines. It crosses through the eastern section of the University Belt area in a generally east–west orientation between the Nagtahan Interchange and the intersection with Nepomuceno Street in Quiapo. Legarda station of the LRTA's Line 2 system serves it.
The Gota de Leche Building is a heritage site located in Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines. It was designated as an Important Cultural Property by the National Museum of the Philippines in August 2014. [1] The cultural heritage site was named an Honourable Mention in the 2003 UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards. [2]
Lacson Avenue is the principal northwest–southeast artery in the Sampaloc district in northern Manila, Philippines.It is a 6-8 lane median divided avenue that runs approximately 2.9 kilometers (1.8 mi) from Tayuman Street in Santa Cruz to Nagtahan Interchange.
Legarda station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) system in Sampaloc, Manila. It is named after Legarda Street, where the station sits above it. The street in turn is named after Benito Legarda, a Filipino legislator. [1]
Dimasalang Street is a major road between the districts of Sampaloc and Santa Cruz in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.Running 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) in a north–south direction, it connects Lacson Avenue and Laon Laan Street in the south to Blumentritt Road, near the city's border with Quezon City, in the north.