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Intramuros (lit. ' within the walls ' or ' inside the walls ') is the 0.67-square-kilometer (0.26 sq mi) historic walled area within the city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is administered by the Intramuros Administration with the help of the city government of Manila. [2]
By style Intramuros was described as both vernacular and cosmopolitan. While its Church and State buildings were European in orientation, albeit adapted and localized, most of the buildings enclaved within its walls embraced tropical vernacular constructions as exemplified by the Bahay na bato. Churches, fortifications, and palaces fashioned in ...
Intramuros (Latin, "within the walls") is the oldest district and historic core of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Also called the Walled City, it was the original city of Manila and was the seat of government when the Philippines was a component realm of the Spanish Empire.
The layout of the city was haphazardly planned during this era as a set of communities surrounding the fortified walls of Intramuros (within the walls), which was the original Manila. Intramuros, one of the oldest walled cities in the Far East , was constructed and designed by Spanish Jesuit missionaries to provide protection from invading ...
The Intramuros Administration (IA) is an agency of the Department of Tourism of the Philippines that is mandated to orderly restore, administer, and develop the historic walled area of Intramuros that is situated within the modern City of Manila as well as to insure that the 16th- to 19th-century Philippine-Spanish architecture remains the general architectural style of the walled area.
In studies of Classical Greece, the term intramural refers to burials that took place within the walls of a city-state. In cases where a city lacked walls, the term intracommunal burial is sometimes used. [16] In most of Greece, the practice of intracommunal burial was largely abolished by the end of the Geometric period (that is, by c. 700 BC).
The main Mapúa campus is located within the walls of Intramuros, Manila. The Intramuros campus hosts most of the university's colleges. The campus has undergone several renovations and is equipped for further studies in the fields of engineering. The Manila Campus consists of 7 buildings:
Cuartel de Santa Lucia is a ruined building in Intramuros, Manila, the Philippines. It was constructed for the Artillería de Montaña in 1781 following the plans of Tomas Sanz. Its construction was executed during the governorship of José Basco y Vargas .