Spooktacular Manila Mounts,Mausoleum and Monument Tour (2009)
Cemeteries from all over the world tells a lot of interesting stories from romantic relationships, tragedy, lavish lifestyles to ghost hunting and their spooky encounters with the living. Some famous attractions are the mausoleums examples are Vladimir Lenin , Ho Chi Minh , Eva Peron , Emperor’s tomb in Xian , China , Abraham Lincoln and ancient catacombs . Like the living , the dead also tell their stories.
Manila North Cemetery ( Cementerio del Norte) is Manila largest public cemetery occupying 54 hectares of land , is considered the biggest and one of the oldest cemeteries in Metro Manila. Beside it are two other important cemeteries, namely the La Loma Cemeteryand the Manila Chinese Cemetery. The cemetery is owned by the Manila city government and has initiated an expansion program to build more “apartment tombs” and a crematorium. Located inside the cemetery complex is a chapel, tennis court , veterinary office and is considered as home to a large group of informal communities .
Pyramid shaped family tomb of Tuazon -Arroyo family clan complete with Spinx
Gov. General Francis Burton Harrison
Francis Burton Harrison (December 18, 1873 – November 21, 1957) was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and appointed as Governor- General of the Philippines by United States President Woodrow Wilson . Harrison was a prominent adviser to a commonwealth president four other Presidents of the country. Harrison Plaza was named after him.
Pancho Villa tombstone marker
Francisco Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), more popularly known as Pancho Villa, boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch (154 cm) tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds (51 kg), rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight boxing champion in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as “the greatest Asian fighter in boxing history”.
an ornately decorated family tomb
President Ramon Magsaysay tomb
Fernando Poe Jr. tomb and family mausoleum
Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJand Da King, was a an actor and cultural icon. He was honored on May 24, 2006 as Philippine National Artist through Philippine Proclamation No. 1065.
Notable personalities buried within the cemetery were Jose Corazon de Jesus ( poet) , President Roxas, President Sergio Osmeña y Suico among others.
(oct 25,2009)
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