If These Walls Could Talk
Jan 07, 2021
2 minutes
By Dorynna Untivero
It was 1571 and having defeated Rajah Soliman and other local leaders in battle, the Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi has finally laid claim over what we know today as Manila. Following a tumultuous conquest from the Visayas region to Luzon, Legazpi sought to rebuild the fallen Rajah’s wooden citadel into a symbol of power for the
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