Fort Santiago, Intramuros (Jan.2024)

Back in Intramuros

A quick walk back in time.

For tonight's destination, our stop was at Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila.

After our Binondo Food Crawl earlier that day, we decided to have a night visit at Intramuros, specifically at Fort Santiago.

As we all know, this place is historical and rich in memorable, remarkable and painful stories during the Spanish and Japanese era.

We paid 75 pesos per head for the entrance fee.

 And then we’re off to a long walk around the park as if we’re going back to the past.

I didn’t take a lot of pictures here because it’s night time but I would love to go back there when it’s daylight and promise to take a lot of photos. I think I’ll appreciate the whole place more when it’s daytime.

 

For me, the highlight of our visit there was when we entered the dungeon.

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It was my second time going to Fort Santiago but the first time was already a long time ago. I think I was seven years old during my first visit there and I can’t remember it well.

So, it really feels the first time again after more than two decades.

The dungeon has a sad story during the Japanese time.

I can’t imagine why the Japanese soldiers let more than 600 Filipinos died in there.

It was actually depressing reading the stories with real life photos posted on the walls as we walked inside the dungeon.

I felt sad for all my Kababayans who suffered there.

They were the unsung heroes and innocent people of our country during that time.

I hope that they already got the justice that they deserve and they’re in peace now.

It was more than 80 years ago but the effect of the World War 2 has really a great impact on our history.

Outside the dungeon was a huge white cross that later on I found out on the internet that it was where the 600 people were buried.

So, basically, that part of Fort Santiago was a mass graveyard.

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We also went to the part of Fort Santiago where you can see the Pasig River and it was an amazing view. We even stayed there for a while for some kwentuhan. We didn’t even realize the time.

It was already 10 pm when we went outside Fort Santiago.

There’s a parking fee of 30 pesos by the way.

I would really love to go back here, revisit our history, walk down the memory lane and take a lot of photos of the present time for reference of the future.