Almost everything Manila have problems with right now is because of WWII. The transportation issue especially. Because Manila wasn’t rebuilt and restored fully, zoning laws were not as enforced, cheap American Jeeps were turned to Jeepneys (a transportation vehicle only temporarily intended to be used because before that Manila had the more efficient Tranvia railway), more corruption, ect. When a city loses 400 years of infrastructure you lose what made the city great and people over time forget and lose respect to it..

The old Intramuros was hauntingly beautiful in it's grandeur. Such magnificent churches that could rival any other churches in Europe. It sad to think about how the Philippines could have been the "Europe of Asia' had not the evils of war intervened.

Matagal ko ng pangarap na maibalik ang Intramuros sa dating ganda nito. Since mainly Spanish fortress ito, sana kahit ibalik nila ang itsura ng Intramuros circa 1896 (as last seen by National Hero Jose Rizal). Nakatayo pa ang 7 actually 8 churches, ang UST at Ateneo de Manila kung saan nag aral si Rizal at iba pang buildings. Maganda sana na maging museum ang buong Intramuros na talagang maipagmamalaki natin sa buong mundo.

A so informative video about our history. Salamat!

Sayang talaga na wala na ang mga ito, ganda talaga ng pagkagawa, parang nasa europa ka. Mabuti nalang may isa na nakaligtas sa giyera.

I studied in Letran back in my college days, I am fascinated by Intramuros and its hidden gems. I didn't know that San Nicolas Church was huge back then, I bet much bigger than the Manila Cathedral.

Intramuros is pretty much Europe in Asia. It actually reminds me of Toledo. The walled city has so much potential to help Manila. This citadel can be a unique attraction to all Asians alone wherein a travel to Europe is no longer necessary. Why the Intramuros Administration has not implemented a mandatory rehabilitation is beyond logic. I am sure it is cheap to just reconstruct the facades of these historical stuctures, JUST THE OUTSIDE, and there is really no need to build anything inside, just keep it open space for entrepreneurs to rent as restaurants, markets, museums, etc. Then from the rent, use the money to revive the interiors. Has anybody even thought about this? Why do the government and administrators think they need to spend so much money recreating the interior as well? Just the facade will do due to budget constraints. Intramuros is so small and we can’t rebuild even just the outside of a building, THE SHELL? And restore the original names of these streets. Get rid of the electric cables. (Venice is older than Intramuros yet they managed to hide their spaghetti wires.) The golf course which used to be the moat, TURN IT INTO A DIGNIFIED PARK where authentic looking calesas are offered to tourists to see the walls. And those uniforms of those guardia civil, seriously, they look cheap. A simple barong will do or saya for women. Sa pagka liitliit ng Intramuros hindi maayos-ayos? NAUNAHAN PA NG BGC. Yang Jones Bridge, meron nang mga lumang pictures ng original NI HINDI PA GINAYA, instead naging baduy na hindi mo maintindihan kung nasa movie set ka ng Beauty and the Beast o Disneyland. Tapos sa harap pa nang Jones Bridge nag tayo pa nang higanteng Chinese Arch. At hindi pa na contento, GUMAWA PA NG ARCH BRIDGE NA MODERN. EWAN

Thanks so much for sharing your videos. I worked in Intramuros for 35 years in one of the universities.I used to attend masses during our lunch break.There were many tourists riding in Kalesa.Intramuros is a very nice place and full of memories. Truly a historical place💕

Thank you so much for this informative video!!! People will now have idea about this one :>

So very historical place ... hopefully yung mga cables na hindi naman ginagamit na ay maAlis to avoid spaghetti looks of wires sour to our eyes. God bless you po!

After watching this, it saddened me to see that we lost a lot of our heritage buildings and specially churches during WWII, judging by those pictures after the liberation, all of those churches are still redeemable, we should have restored it instead of completely destroying and then replacing all those beautiful churches. Makes me wonder, what could have been and how much more grandeur Intramuros is right now and the also the tourism it would have attracted.

new subsctiber here. just like you i am an old man who loves traveling

my mga informal settlers pa pala dyan i relocate na sana ang ganda na ng Intramuros mga yan ang magdudumi muli dyan may mga bata pang nakahubad

Thank you so much for this vlog. I didnt know that Intramuros has 7 churches. I only know 2. I grew up with the modern Intramuros already and now i know i did missed a lot of my history...again thank you please vlog more..❤❤❤

Wonderful tour. In terms of art and architecture, Santo Domingo Church is the greatest loss. The gothic crown jewel of the wealthy and powerful Dominican Order housed a 16th century ivory statue of Our Lady of the Rosary ("La Naval") and had European masonry and interiors hand-carved from the finest native (likely now extinct) hardwoods. Spiritually, the greatest loss was San Nicolas de Tolentino Church. It housed a set of 17th century wooden statues that included the original Black Nazarene (the one in Quiapo is a later copy) and therefore had it survived the war, would've been the greatest Catholic devotional shrine of the 7 churches.

Sayang Intramuros would’ve been famous sa buong mundo sana for having a 7 churches. What a great lossss

tatayjoseph next vlog mo discover and feature all the lost schools and universities that are existing before in intramuros....gusto namin malaman sana...yun ust at ateneo alam namin originally located sa intramuros...dapat kase itayo ulit dyan ang ust at ateneo pwede naman gawin yun...sana si FL Liza Marcos gawin project ang revival ng old intramuros...☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

Keep it up Joseph.

I like to know about it, sana ireconstruct again the 7 churches inside intramuros.. Kainlan po gagawi ...

400 years of medieval history gone in just a matter of 2 weeks. What happened to the Philippines in WWII really makes me sad

Kaka subscribed ko lng po and salamat po sa kaalamang inyong naibahagi Sir Joseph 😊

Thank you sir for doing a vlog about this. Much appreciated. 👍😊❤️🇵🇭

Ancestral houses in Manila naman sana po next. ❤

buti naman binura na nila yung mala-pink na facade ng San Agustin church. nakaka-asiwang tingnan yung kulay ng facade na di tugma sa majority ng kulay ng exterior ng simbahan.

We Filipinos are good in totally destroying an old historical building. We can still rebuild the ruins to preserve, but we chose not to. There are still many historical buildings in Manila up to this date that need rebuilding or preserving. However most of them are in danger of losing due to modernization.

If there is such thing as time travel, I would like to visit Intramuros during its golden age. :(

Dapat ni restore nun after WW2. PWede p sana buo p facade. Di dapat iniwan Ng catholic church.

There were actually two Franciscan churches almost fronting each other in the Intramuros area: the San Francisco Church (the Franciscan mother church in Las Yslas Filipinas) and the Chapel of the Third Order Franciscans (Venerable Orden Tercera). This makes a total of eight Intramuros churches. The Franciscans later sought to replicate the old Intramuros layout in building Sampaloc's Our Lady of Loreto church almost facing the St Anthony Shrine of the Third Order Franciscans.

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San Nicolas de Tolentino or Recollect church was the setting of LVN's 1956 film Anak Dalita

Sana sa mga local government jan sa Manila, ibalik ang mga nasirang simbahan kasi bahagi yan ng history ng ating mga ninuno at sila mismo ang mga gumawa ng mga simbahan, pawis at luha ang nakataya sating mga ninunong ginawang construction workers ng mga Kastila noon. Wala kasi tayong batas na i save at i replicate ang mga historical landmarks d tulad sa Europe.

If only they rebuilt and preserve in good management of intramuros , its beauty can compare to old cities just like counterparts in the South american sisters , and brothers just like cuba , peru , etc..😢

They should have reconstructed the ruins of other destroyed churches just like the Manila Cathedral. The ruins of the other churches are far more larger (?) than Manila Cathedral. If they could salvaged Manila Cathedral, why not the others?

sana ibalik nila yung lahat na churches

tatay joseph...ipinakita mo na rin lang yun mga dating old churches sa intramuros,,,dapat sana sinabi at ipinakita mo din kung ano present itsura nya at saan na sila narelocate na lugar????...sabi kase sa comment nirebuild daw sila sa ibang places at saang mga places yan???...sana nasearch mo din mga yun😃

Can one still access the silleria de coro (choir stalls) and the pipe organ of the San Agustin from its museum right beside the church?

To reconstruct these 5 churches will take a lot time, effort, money like billions of pesos. The best is relocation to Manila suburb like Bulacan, or Batangas, to a wider space like 2 hectares of land. A lot of artisans, carvers painters, engineers, architects need to be involved with this both local and foreign. Huge undertaking project with National Museum, DPWH, MMDA, Archdiocese of Manila, NHCP, DOT, and even the Vatican. Look what happened to Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, after decades still not yet finished. But look at Las Cazas de Filipinas in Bataan, it recaptured the Old Manila. Secretary José Acuzar should headed the project.

ansakit!!! sayang hindi sinubukang irestore noon paman. dito mo makikita kung gaano kalaki ang yaman ang nawala ng mga pilipino. dahil sa gyera at kapabayaan.

It’s gone coz nobody cared enough to rebuild them. Warsaw and other heavily bombed cities rebuilt after the war. God knows where the reparation money went. Definitely didnt go back to rebuilding what Manila had before

Sana napanatili ng Pinas ang pagiging mala Spain.. Hay

Yun ruin parang pwede pa maayus sayang di repair

San Agustin church isn't the oldest church in the country. There are countless other older churches outside the walled city, especially in the southern tagalog provinces of Laguna, Batangas, and Quezon.

Sir do you have the old pictures of the remaining 5 churches...pls show it us.

Do you know the reasons why there were so many church in such as small span of space?

bat dinemolish yung mga churches? kahit nasira, malaking part parin nmn ang nakatayo, nirestore nlang sana

Dapat dyan sa mga cable nakabaon.

sayang lang yung iba hindi na ni restore 😢 dami pala simabahan sa intramuros

Allowed po video sa Museo De Intramuros??

Ano pong street located ang st. Ignatius at nakapaoasok po ba doon

San Agustin ang oldest church sa Manila, not sa whole country. Older pa ang sa Cebu and Bohol.

Beautiful walled city. Just don't get scammed by pedicab and calesa drivers wich the admin is doing nothing. Better to walk around and feel the past.

Ewan, nakakapanghihinayan....sayang yung kasaysayan, yaman at ganda ng mga istraktura. While watching this, maiinis ka lang sa mga kano... obvious na binomba ng mga kano ang Manila para dumepende uli ang mga Pilipino at kung tutuusin pwede namang hindi...sumuko lang naman ng tuluyan ang mga Hapon ng binomba ng Nukleyar ang Hiroshima at Nagasaki... pero kung yun talaga ang kapalaran ng 7 Churches of Intramuros. Anyway, congrats for a beautiful and informative vlog content.

Hindi na ba kayang ma restore talaga ang complete 7 churches? Bakit sa Poland at Germany sonrang durog na durog moong WW2 ang mga hystorical buildings nila.

From beautiful baroque style churches to ugly square block buildings.

Kindly correct po Hindi po Yan Religious sects.... religious congregation po tawag niyan...

di ko mapigilang mainis sa mga kano yan, di ba uso diplomasya nun, edi sana andyan pa mga makasaysayng mga simbahan .sayang sobrang gaganda

I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to rebuild churches. With so many more necessary infrastructures needed to be built and rehabilitated after the war, not prioritizing the churches (when we have so many already) was justified. Besides, the responsibility of rebuilding the churches falls on the respective religious order.

I wept .. thinking we lost these irreplaceable treasure to our patrimony and culture due to AMERICAN BOMBS!!! We almost lost San Agustin were it not for my restoration of the retablos inside due to neglect and indifference. But it awakened the Intramuros Administration and UNESCO also stepped in.❤😊

Why didnt tbey rebuild the other churches? Why didnt the American rebuild them? Probably theyre non- Catholics. So sad.

Hindi ako galit sa mga hapon, pero kapag naiisip ko ginawa nila satin noong WWII P%$%^$*& talaga nila eh.

may mga vandalism pa grabe naman

Yung mga spaghetti wires, cables. Please removed nyo na yan. Gawin nyo underground cabling. Nakakasira ng View.

Hindi ko na tinapos ang panonood, mali-mali kasi kala ko may matutunan ako, sabihn ba namang mga Hapon ang bumomba sa Intramuros, bye.