‘Homeless artist’ of Padre Faura captivates with his paintings, street gallery
Just in time for this year’s National Arts Month celebration, images of a “homeless artist” from Ermita are making rounds in social media.
Just in time for this year’s National Arts Month celebration, images of a “homeless artist” from Ermita are making rounds in social media.
The war destroyed Ermita and left its residents destitute. One by one, the families left their snooty, Spanish-speaking district which had been their home for one hundred
The architect for the redevelopment of the Army-Navy Club in Manila has said the building would be restored and rehabilitated even if much of its interiors has been emptied and all but the shell of the once-proud edifice remains after City Hall gave the go-signal for its demolition.
Casa Tesoro was a stately home on A. Mabini Street in Ermita when the district and its surrounding arrabales like Malate were enclaves of landed gentry with second homes. The mansion was built as a vacation house and once marked a whole neighborhood’s genteel and patrician identity.
In the ’50S, after class, my classmates and I would walk the length of Roxas Boulevard from UN Avenue up to the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran, a good 20-km distance.
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