These days, you may find it weird that a park can be situated in an unlikely neighborhood of sorts, surrounded by buildings and commercial establishments, right in the middle of intersecting roads which make it look like a rotunda plaza. Despite how “unfriendly” the site of Paco Park is today, it holds so much historical and cultural value that it has deserved the needed attention and preservation, all the more so now as urbanization and the decay it has brought is a serious threat not only to the park’s landscape but throughout the city as well.
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halina sa La Loma…Cemetery
At this particular time when we remember and “celebrate” all things morbid and frightening, this roamer has been fortunate for the opportunity to get to visit the metropolis’ oldest cemetery in existence: the La Loma Cemetery. Long before the overcrowding of Metro Manila, the area where the cemetery now stands used to be what is considered the hinterlands as urban life back then was only concentrated in Intramuros. The place also bore a hilly terrain, thus the place’s name “La Loma” or “the hills.” Because of its topography and location, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila found it a a perfect spot to put up their cemetery which they opened…