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"Manila is a Paradise" Photo by: Cyrill Concepcion Intalan Taken @ Paco Park Manila Philippines Canon EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS S- 2 sec. A- f/22 iso- 100 |
Paco Park was originally planned as a municipal cemetery for the well-off and established aristocratic Spanish families who resided in the old Manila, or the city within the walls of Intramuros during the Spanish colonial era. Most of the wealthy families interred the remains of their loved ones inside the municipal cemetery in what was once the district of Dilao (former name for Paco). The cemetery was built in the late 18th century but was completed several decades later and in 1822, the cemetery was used to inter victims of a cholera epidemic that swept across the city.
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