Casa Manila Explained

Casa Manila

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Coordinates:

14.5897°N 120.9751°W

Director:

Guiller Asido^[1]

Curator:

Ramil B. Tibayan^[2]

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Status:	Complete
Building Type:	Mansion
Architectural Style:	Filipino Colonial (Bahay na Bato)
Location:	Intramuros
Location Town:	Manila
Pushpin Map:	Philippines City of Manila#Metro Manila#Luzon mainland#Philippines
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Manila##Location in Metro Manila##Location in Luzon##Location in the Philippines
Completion Date:	1980s
Floor Count:	3
Architect:	Ramon Faustmann

Casa Manila is a museum in Intramuros depicting colonial lifestyle during Spanish colonization of the Philippines.

The museum is the imposing stone-and-wood structure c. 1850, one of the grand houses in Barrio San Luis (one of the four original villages of Intramuros) is located across historic San Agustin church and bounded by Calle Real, General Luna, Cabildo and Urdaneta streets. The other two are the Los Hidalgos, c. 1650 and Cuyugan Mansion, c. 1890.

Casa Manila is a copy of an 1850s San Nicolas House that was once located in Calle Jaboneros. The architect of Casa Manila was J. Ramon L. Faustmann.^[3] It was constructed by Imelda Marcos during the 1980s and modeled on Spanish colonial architecture.^[4]

References

http://intramuros.gov.ph/about-the-ia/officials/ Key Officials
http://intramuros.gov.ph/about-the-ia/officials/ Key Officials
Web site: Intramuros: Revisit the Past in Casa Manila. Philippine Headline News Online. 28 July 2014.
Book: Philippines. Greg Bloom. 2009. Lonely Planet . 978-1-74104-721-9. 81. 13 August 2011.

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Casa Manila Explained

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