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The Arch of the Centuries prominently stands at the center of the Plaza Intramuros. The arch was the main doorway to the university when the campus was still in Intramuros from 1680 to 1941. The central lower section of the original facade was transferred piece by piece and reconstructed in the Manila campus in 1954.
The following is a list of buildings at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Sampaloc, Manila.. The university sits on an almost perfect square of 21.5 hectares. The university transferred to its present campus in 1927 when the Dominicans deemed the Intramuros campus inadequate for the university's growing population.
The Arch of the Centuries (Filipino: Arko ng mga Siglo) is a triumphal arch at the Plaza Intramuros of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.Half of the current structure, the side facing the UST Main Building is the ruins of the 17th-century arch door of the first UST campus in Intramuros, while the side that faces España Boulevard is a replica inaugurated in 1954.
UST Plaza Mayor: Sampaloc, Manila ... Plaza Santo Tomas: Intramuros, Manila: Plazuela de Santa Isabel: ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download ...
In the 1980s, the Intramuros Administration redeveloped the area into a usable park. [2] In 2002, the UST administration in cooperation with the Intramuros Administration, National Historical Institute, and the university alumni renovated the park. Manuel Cueto of the UST College of Architecture designed the renovation. The renovation project ...
In December 1878, the rector conceived the idea of erecting a monument with a statue of the founder in the Plaza de Santo Tomás in Intramuros. The Benavides statue was made in Paris in 1889 through funds collected by the faculty, students, and friends of the university. It was inaugurated on July 2, 1891 – opening of the school year.
The annual UST Inter-School On-the-Spot Painting Competition is usually held in the plaza. [15] When Queen Sofía of Spain visited UST in 2012, she was welcomed by the university rector at Rizal Lane before laying a wreath at the Benavides Statue. [16] [17] In 2015, Pope Francis entered the UST campus through the Arch of the Centuries. He then ...
The main square of the city of Manila was Plaza Mayor (later known as Plaza McKinley then Plaza de Roma) in front of the Manila Cathedral. East of the plaza was the Ayuntamiento (City Hall) and facing it was the Palacio del Gobernador, the official residence of the Spanish viceroyalties to the Philippines. An earthquake on June 3, 1863 ...