Casa Manila
A recreation of the rich, opulent life in Intramuros during the colonial period, Casa Manila is definitely on everybody’s list of must-see museums in the country. Besides its well-detailed façade, archways, grand staircases, and cobble-stoned pavements, it houses furnitures, ornaments, as well as religious and artistic artefacts that complete the time travel experience.
However, Casa Manila was built only in the ‘80s through the initiative of the Intamuros Administration. It was modelled on the house of the prominent merchant Don Severino Mendoza in Binondo. Nevertheless, Casa Manila gives visitors a glimpse on the life during the 19th century and teaches the relation of social status with the architectural design of a house during that era.
General Luis Street, Intramuros, Manila, +632.527.3135