Please tell us about the location of Palacio de Memoria.
It is located in Roxas Boulevard, formerly known as Dewey Boulevard in Manila’s Commonwealth period. What used to surround us were old stately homes but because of the war, modernisation and the reclamation of Manila Bay, [this house] and the Lopez house were the only ones left standing. We are now surrounded by miles of casinos and buildings. We are quite lucky to have been able to preserve the house and land of what was once a seaside manor.
“We are quite lucky to have been able to preserve the house and land of what was once a seaside manor”
When was the Palacio originally built?
It was built in the latter end of the 1930s, but because
