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  • Fort Santiago
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  • Fort Santiago ( ) is a citadel first built by Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi for the new established city of Manila in the Philippines. The defense fortress is part of the structures of the walled city of Manila referred to as Intramuros ("within the walls").
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Start date
  • 1590
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location town
  • Manila
structural engineer
  • Leonardo Iturriano
latd
  • 14
longs
  • 10
location country
  • Philippines
renovation date
  • 1733
map caption
  • Map of the Philippines
latm
  • 35
longm
  • 58
Name
  • Fort Santiago
native name lang
  • Tagalog
Align
  • left
Caption
  • Image of Saint James
  • The lesser arms of the monarch of Spain
  • The reconstructed main gate of Fort Santiago
lats
  • 42
longEW
  • E
Width
  • 150
Completion date
  • 1593
structural system
  • Masonry
Designations
  • National Historical Landmark
other dimensions
  • perimeter
Building Type
  • Bastioned fort
architectural style
  • Italian-Spanish school of fortification
direction
  • vertical
latNS
  • N
Header
  • Adornments of the gate
Alt
  • Image of Saint James
  • The lesser arms of the monarch of Spain
Image
  • Lesser_Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_Spain__Pillars_of_Hercules_Variant.svg
  • Painting of Santiago Matamoros.jpg
native name
  • Moog ng Santiago
longd
  • 120
Architect
iso region
  • PH
map type
  • Philippines
coordinates display
  • inline, title
Location
  • along Pasig River
abstract
  • Fort Santiago ( ) is a citadel first built by Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi for the new established city of Manila in the Philippines. The defense fortress is part of the structures of the walled city of Manila referred to as Intramuros ("within the walls"). The fort is one of the most important historical sites in Manila. Several lives were lost in its prisons during the Spanish Colonial Period and World War II. José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, was imprisoned here before his execution in 1896. The Rizal Shrine museum displays memorabilia of the hero in their collection and the fort features, embedded onto the ground in bronze, his footsteps representing his final walk from his cell to the location of the actual execution.