National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Puerto Postigo

Location: Intramuros, Manila

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Gateway

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 27 January 1937

Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee

Marker text:

PUERTO POSTIGO

SMALLEST OF THE SEVEN GATES OF THE COMPLETED WALLS OF MANILA AS THEY STOOD IN 1898. BEING THE NEAREST TO THE RESIDENCES OF THE HIGHEST CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, THIS GATE WAS USED PRINCIPALLY BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA. MAJOR MANUEL L. QUEZON OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY, TOGETHER WITH MANY COMPATRIOTS, WAS CONFINED IN THE SOUTHERN GUARDROOM FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IN 1900.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Puerto Postigo

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