The cosmopolitan atmosphere and cultural diversity of Manila is reflected in the number of places of worship scattered around the city.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), outside the city proper, serves Manila and the metro area.
Rajah Sulayman Park, Manila Boardwalk, Liwasang Bonifacio, Plaza Miranda, Paco Park, Remedios Circle, Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden, Plaza Balagtas and the Malacaсang Garden are some of the other parks in the city.
Most of these accommodations are located within Roxas Boulevard overlooking Manila Bay, or in the districts of Ermita and Malate.
Vargas was ordered to hand over Greater Manila and present the remaining Filipino leaders to Japanese authorities.
The heavily-armed Spanish force of three hundred soldiers marched through Manila and quickly defeated the native settlements.
The Metropolitan Manila region was enacted as an independent entity in 1975.
Manila has been classified as a "Gamma" global city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network.
Aside from Rizal Park, Manila has very few other open public spaces.
Sergio Osmeсa Sr. Highway, part of the South Luzon Expressway or Radial Road 3 is the most important highway linking Manila with the provinces of southern Luzon.
Near the old San Miguel brewery was the Manila Ice Plant, and portions of its old building now house the Department of Budget and Management.
Manila is the hub the Metro Manila area, also known as the National Capital Region (NCR), a thriving metropolitan area consisting of seventeen cities and municipalities which is home to over 10 million people.
American troops under General Otis immediately routed the Filipino troops who had taken classic defensive positions around Manila to keep them out.
Intramuros is currently the seat of the Archdiocese of Manila, the oldest archdiocese in the country.
Manila was declared an open city by President Manuel L. Quezon, to spare the city from death and destruction.
From 9 am to 10 am of January 2, Japanese imperial forces marched into the City of Manila.
The city has six representatives popularly elected to the House of Representatives, the lower legislative branch of the Philippines, representing each of the six Congressional districts of Manila.
The headquarters for USAFFE were located in Manila, as were the U.S. 31st Infantry Regiment and the U.S. 808th Military Police Company.
On June 10, 1574, King Philip II of Spain gave Manila the title of Insigne y Siempre Leal Ciudad ("Distinguished and Ever Loyal City").
Guinto held the position of Mayor of Greater Manila until the liberation of the city.
Some of the major publications based in Manila include the country's oldest newspapers, the Manila Times, the Manila Bulletin, the Philippine Star, the Manila Standard Today, The Daily Tribune and others.
Manila's hotel accommodations are twenty to thirty minutes away from the international and domestic airport.
Among them are private school De La Salle University-Manila in Malate, the private schools Far Eastern University and University of Santo Tomas in Sampaloc, and the city-owned Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila at Intramuros.
Intramuros, the old and original enclave of Manila, is a historical site.
The city is located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on Luzon, the country's largest island.
The main roads of Metro Manila are organized around a set of radial and circumferential roads that radiate and circle in and around Manila proper.
Like all cities of the Philippines, Manila is governed by a mayor who heads the executive department of the city.
Manila offers a wide range of accommodations ranging from top-rated de-luxe hotels to more affordable universal lodges.
In 1596 the Dutch first arrived on Java and in 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, northwest Java.
In 1570, a Spanish expedition ordered by the conquistador Miguel Lуpez de Legazpi demanded the surrender of Manila.
Roxas Boulevard, easily the most well-known of Manila's streets, circles the southern shores of Manila along Manila Bay.
Coca Cola still operates a bottling plant in Pandacan, but its plant operations are more focused on product distribution into the Metro Manila franchise area.
The Seal of Maynila depicts the words Lungsod ng Maynila and Pilipinas, Filipino for City of Manila and Philippines, in a circle around a shield.
Quezon issued a decree enlarging the safe zone to include outlying areas of Manila as safe zones, establishing the new administrative jurisdiction called Greater Manila.
The City of Manila is the capital of the Philippines and is also the seat of political power in the country.
During the Spanish period, Manila was known the high-quality tobacco produced by the Manila Tabacalera Company, which had its manufacturing and production base along Tayuman street in Tondo.
The establishment of the country's manufacturing base centered around Manila during the Spanish colonial times.
The archdiocese's offices are located in the Manila Cathedral (Basilica Minore de la Nuestra Seсora de la Immaculada Concepcion) in Intramuros.
Almost all of the city sits on top of centuries of prehistoric alluvial deposits built by the waters of the Pasig River and on some land reclaimed from Manila Bay.
Manila is home to major Philippine newspaper publishers with a number of offices and printing presses located at the Port Area.
Troops from the United States invaded Manila in 1898 and waged war with the Spaniards and Filipinos in the Spanish-American War.
The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad," referring to the flowering mangrove plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay.
Another famous open space in Manila is the , a promenade in front of Manila Bay where one can experience one of the most breathtaking sunsets in the world.
Manila has been subject to several attacks by militant terrorists.
The vernacular language is Tagalog, while Filipino and English are the languages used in education and business throughout the Metro Manila region.
Asian Spirit and South East Asian Airlines, which use smaller 48-seat planes, are some of the smaller airlines serving the city of Manila.
From February 3 to March 3, 1945, after the climactic battle at Intramuros ended, the thoroughly devastated city of Manila was officially liberated.
The then newly-established Quezon City was collapsed and divided into two districts, while the municipalities of Caloocan, Las Piсas, Malabon, Makati, Mandaluyong, Navotas, Paraсaque, Pasay, and San Juan became districts of Manila.
Manila is also home to Samahang Plaridel, a prestigious and exclusive organization of journalists whose members include prominent publishers, editors, and reporters of the Philippines.
The Associated Press, Japan's NHK and Fuji TV, and London-based Global Radio News, Ltd. use Manila as their base for news gathering operations in the Philippines.
Manila is also serviced by the Manila Light Rail Transit System (separate from Manila Metro Rail Transit System), a national priority project designed to address the overwhelming traffic that congests the national capital.
Manila lies at the mouth of the Pasig River on the eastern shores of Manila Bay, which is on the western side of Luzon.
Vargas and the local leaders chose the third option and established the Philippine Executive Commission to initially manage Greater Manila; later it was expanded to cover the whole of the Philippines.
The Philippine Manufacturing Company later became Procter and Gamble Philippines and shifted production from within the crowded Tondo area to areas outside of Metro Manila in the late 1980s.
Manila began as a Muslim settlement at the mouth of the Pasig River along the shores of Manila Bay.
Manila was then the northernmost Muslim sultanate in the islands, and held ties with the sultanates of Brunei, Sulu, and Ternate in Cavite.
Manila is home to the majority of the colleges and universities in Metro Manila.
The layout of the city was haphazardly planned during Spanish Era as a set of communities surrounding the original Spanish Era walled city of Manila, called Intramuros.
French nationals living in Italy, according to ISTAT figures, are more commonly women than men.
The tropical heat in Manila plus the facilities offered by its malls continue to attract Filipinos to the shopping malls.
The post of mayor of Greater Manila was given to Quezon's former Executive Secretary, Jorge B. Vargas.
Manila is the seat of the Archdiocese of Manila and the Primate of the Philippines.
The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise Metro Manila.
After the arrival of the Americans at the turn of the twentieth century, Manila's manufacturing base expanded and diversified into different areas.
On the evening of New Year's Day of 1942, a Japanese courier delivered notice to Vargas that Japanese forces already bivouacked at Paraсaque would enter Greater Manila the following day.
Manila is the second most populous city proper in the Philippines, with more than 1.5 million inhabitants.
The British Occupation was confined to Manila and Cavite while Simуn de Anda y Salazar, acting as a de facto Spanish governor general, kept the countryside for Spain with the help of Filipino soldiers.