Manila Travel Information

Manila is the capital city of the Philippines. But we Filipinos call Manila "The City of Our Affections." This phrase is taken from an old Spanish writing; but it also expresses a modern sentiment.

Manila is all things for all Filipinos. It is the seat government administration, the fashion center, the intellectual pacesetter, the fountainhead of all religious and educational movements; and of course, enormous shopping arcades. It is politics and art; markets and churches; banks and universities - the whole life.

For most Filipinos - especially those who have yet to visit Manila - it is a political and economic summit, the city of dreams. For the millions eking out a living in its slums and its westernized middle classes; it is an asphalt jungle - gaudy and ruthless but irresistible.

Manila is an old city, may be older than historians can determine. Perhaps having been around for a long time gives its "Poise and Grandeur."