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Fort Santiago

Fort Santiago, built in 1571, is a citadel or castle built by Spanish navigator and governor Miguel López de Legazpi for the newly established city of in the .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Plaza de Armas and Rizal Shrine.

Park
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The is a in , . It is the central plaza of Fort Santiago. It is one of three major plazas in Intramuros, the others being the central outside the fort grounds and , a larger plaza outside Fort Santiago which was once a military promenade before it was closed in the 1863 earthquake that devastated Manila.

Museum
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The , also known as the Museo ni José Rizal Fort Santiago, is a museum dedicated to the lifework of José Rizal. It is located inside Fort Santiago in , , , beside the .

Park
is a in , . Located in front of the entrance to Fort Santiago, it is one of three major plazas in Intramuros, the others being located beyond the fort's grounds, and the located inside the fort, to which it is often misconstrued for. is situated 170 metres southeast of Fort Santiago.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Area and Intramuros.

Suburb
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, also known as the Manila Port District and South Port District, is a district of the city of , . It is entirely a reclaimed land occupied by Manila's South Harbor and .

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, also known as the Ciudad Murada because of its most famous feature: a nearly 5-km-long circuit of massive stone walls and fortifications that almost completely surrounds the entire district, is the historic centre and oldest district of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

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is the "Chinatown" district of . It is the oldest Chinatown in the world and was the country's center of commerce during the American occupation.

Fort Santiago

Latitude
14.59447° or 14° 35′ 40″ north
Longitude
120.97006° or 120° 58′ 12″ east
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
7Q62HXVC+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 828670532
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Geo­Names ID
1687794
Wiki­data ID
Q478181
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tagalog—“Fort Santiago” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Fort Santiago”
  • Central Bikol: “Kuta nin Santiago”
  • Chinese: “圣地亚哥堡 (菲律宾)”
  • Chinese: “圣地亚哥堡”
  • Dutch: “Fort Santiago”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن سانتياجو”
  • Filipino: “Fort Santiago”
  • French: “fort Santiago”
  • French: “Fort Santiago”
  • German: “Fuerte de Santiago (Manila)”
  • German: “Fuerte de Santiago”
  • German: “Fuerza de Santiago”
  • Hebrew: “פורט סנטיאגו”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Santiago”
  • Japanese: “サンチャゴ要塞”
  • Japanese: “フォート・サンチャゴ”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte de Santiago”
  • Spanish: “Fuerza de Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Fuerza de Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Kuta ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Kuta ni Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Kuta Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Kutang Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Lakas ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Moog na Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Moog ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Moog ni Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Muog na Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Muog ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Muog ni Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Muog Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Puwersa ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Puwersang Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Pwersa ng Santiago”
  • Tagalog: “Pwersang Santiago”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Santiago”. Photo: Drumlanrig, Public domain.