| Item Call Number |
GE00577 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00577 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00577
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Intramuros sentinel tower
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| General Note |
- General note - Photo of sentinel tower on the Bastion overlooking former moat, and facing presently Congress. To protect the residents from enemy attack, walls - made of brick, lime stone and earth filling the space between the inner and outer walls, 20 feet high in some places and an average of 16 feet wide - were built encircling the whole of Intramuros. The Walls had six original gates - The Almacenes, Sto. Domingo, Parian, Puerto Real, Sta. Lucia and the Postigo - which, until 1852, were closed from eleven o''clock in the evening to four in the morning. Ramps at the gates enabled the strategic planting of the artillery. On the corners of the walls were located sentry towers to watch against surprise attacks. It took more than 200 years to build the walls by forced labor of the natives. The first walls, made of hewn logs, were built in 1570 but destroyed by Limahong in 1574. In 1590, Gov. Gomez Perez Dasmariñas started the construction of the stone walls only to be destroyed in 1603 during the Chinese rebellion. In 1609, Juan de Silva rebuilt the walls, continued by Juan Niño de Tabora in 1626 and by Diego Fajardo in 1644. Again in 1762, during the British invasion the southern ramparts were destroyed and later improvements were made by Engineer Gomez. In 1797, other changes were made along the Pasig River where the defense was strengthened. The plans of the walls were changed several times until 1872 when the last changes were authorized but never finished. Practically the entire wall was destroyed by U.S. artillery during the liberation of the city in February, 1945.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Luis Ma. Araneta Collection
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| Local Note (rlin) |
- Local note - Wall and moatCaption Note)
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1910
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Provinces and cities
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Intramuros, Manila
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1910
- Focus term - araneta
- Focus term - Intramuros bastion
- Focus term - luzon
- Focus term - manila
- Focus term - moat
- Focus term - walls
- Focus term - watchtowers
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