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View from inside of Subic Spanish Gate. The Subic Spanish Gate, is located at the corner of Dewey Avenue and Samson Road, Barangay New Kalalake, City of Olongapo, Zambales Province, Philippines, was built in 1885 when the Spanish Navy authorized the construction of the Arsenal de Olongapo, [1] after King Alfonso XII of Spain issued a royal decree declaring Subic Bay as a naval port in 1884.
The design was inspired by Iloilo's Dinagyang and Paraw Regatta festivals. The paraw is a native double outrigger sailboat in the Visayas region, used in the annual Paraw Regatta Festival sailboat race. Abstract designs of the famous Dinagyang Festival are featured on the glass walls of the center. [32]
This gate was named after the nearby Palacio del Gobernador. [1] The first postigo was built several meters away but was walled up in 1662 when the present gate was constructed. The gate was then renovated in 1782 under the direction of military engineer Tomás Sanz. [2] The gate led to the palaces of the governor-general and archbishop of Manila.
A closed ventanilla below a capiz shell main window.. In Philippine architecture, the ventanilla is a small window or opening below a larger window's casement, created—often reaching the level of the floor—to allow either additional air into a room during hot days or some air during hot nights when the main window's panes are drawn.
The Burnham Plan of Manila is a popular name for Report on proposed improvements at Manila and Manila, P.I., plan of proposed improvements, a 1905 report and map by Daniel Burnham and Pierce Anderson which detail the plan for the city of Manila.
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.
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The complex was initially the home of the Batasang Pambansa, the former legislature of the Philippines which was established as an interim assembly in 1978 and finally as an official body in 1984. Under the 1973 Constitution , it replaced the bicameral Congress of the Philippines established under the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution.