if you are still in Manila and since it seems you want to get in touch with your roots, I highly recommend that you visit the three national museums which are the national museum of fine arts, the national national museum of anthropology and lastly the national museum of natural history there used to be a fee to enter these museums but since a few years ago it is now free to visit all three museums just bring a valid ID because that is the only one requirement. all these three museums surround around the historic luneta park so why don't you visit that it is also near the arroceeros forest park so why don't you visit that as well and also the Pasig River esplanade which is manilas newest attraction, the government spent a lot to build this esplanade and it looks beautiful in the evening.
Even when this is a post WW2 recreation of a style that is yet to be historically authenticated, Spanish houses still don't look like this. The more common traditional Philippine architecture is rather similar to traditional Malaysian or Bruneian architecture for both nobles and commoners and even during Spanish rule. You may notice that a lot of such houses are owned by Filipinos rather than by Spaniards. Examples are Aguinaldo's and Rizal's houses, where the language of the household is a Philippine language (Tagalog). Again, such houses are not found in Spain. Spaniards tended to live in what may actually look like Iberian houses, unless they were adopting Philippine architecture, which a lot if not most of them did. Houses were built by _mga anluwagi_ .
Casa Manila isn't an original structure. Almost all of Manila was destroyed in the Battle of Manila in WWII only 2nd decimated to Warsaw, Poland. The only original remaining structure that was not completely bombed is one of the churches (the Manila Cathedral is not that one, its another church I just forgot the name). Casa Manila was created as more like a museum of what the typical Spanish Filipino elite houses looked like inside and outside so no one from the past era actually walked on its walls and lived in it. Some of the original houses were destroyed and rebuilt as they were after the war but not all of them. The only structures that survived were the walls, the prison area were they locked POWs/colonial prisoners during spanish times, few of the houses and one of the original 7 churches it was truly a brutal event.
These are not "Spanish-themed houses." They are Spanish-style houses because they were built during the Spanish occupation when most of the country's infrastructures were constructed to those specifications by the Spaniards...just like you would see in Mexico and South America - places also occupied and ruled by Spain. That was the norm.
It was also partly inspired by Asian and local Filipino architecture especially the capiz windows made of out of sea shells, the use of dark wood, ect. Its a great mix with European and Asian styles.
This is also a Spanish-themed house because it wasn't built during Spanish rule and doesn't necessarily strictly adhere to the architecture that was used during Spanish rule.
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if you are still in Manila and since it seems you want to get in touch with your roots, I highly recommend that you visit the three national museums which are the national museum of fine arts, the national national museum of anthropology and lastly the national museum of natural history there used to be a fee to enter these museums but since a few years ago it is now free to visit all three museums just bring a valid ID because that is the only one requirement. all these three museums surround around the historic luneta park so why don't you visit that it is also near the arroceeros forest park so why don't you visit that as well and also the Pasig River esplanade which is manilas newest attraction, the government spent a lot to build this esplanade and it looks beautiful in the evening.
@@marikitliwayway6703 sa susunod na pag uwi po. Salamat po sa recommendations! 😍
Even when this is a post WW2 recreation of a style that is yet to be historically authenticated, Spanish houses still don't look like this. The more common traditional Philippine architecture is rather similar to traditional Malaysian or Bruneian architecture for both nobles and commoners and even during Spanish rule.
You may notice that a lot of such houses are owned by Filipinos rather than by Spaniards. Examples are Aguinaldo's and Rizal's houses, where the language of the household is a Philippine language (Tagalog). Again, such houses are not found in Spain. Spaniards tended to live in what may actually look like Iberian houses, unless they were adopting Philippine architecture, which a lot if not most of them did. Houses were built by _mga anluwagi_ .
Casa Manila isn't an original structure. Almost all of Manila was destroyed in the Battle of Manila in WWII only 2nd decimated to Warsaw, Poland. The only original remaining structure that was not completely bombed is one of the churches (the Manila Cathedral is not that one, its another church I just forgot the name). Casa Manila was created as more like a museum of what the typical Spanish Filipino elite houses looked like inside and outside so no one from the past era actually walked on its walls and lived in it. Some of the original houses were destroyed and rebuilt as they were after the war but not all of them. The only structures that survived were the walls, the prison area were they locked POWs/colonial prisoners during spanish times, few of the houses and one of the original 7 churches it was truly a brutal event.
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These are not "Spanish-themed houses." They are Spanish-style houses because they were built during the Spanish occupation when most of the country's infrastructures were constructed to those specifications by the Spaniards...just like you would see in Mexico and South America - places also occupied and ruled by Spain. That was the norm.
Gee, thanks, the word that I was looking for.
It was also partly inspired by Asian and local Filipino architecture especially the capiz windows made of out of sea shells, the use of dark wood, ect. Its a great mix with European and Asian styles.
This is not infrastructure, though. Spanish influence in Philippines also much much less than in Latin America.
@@bmona7550 The European portion is the stone wall around the _silong_ and some Roman Catholic (Hellenistic-Etruscan) additional decorations.
This is also a Spanish-themed house because it wasn't built during Spanish rule and doesn't necessarily strictly adhere to the architecture that was used during Spanish rule.