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Intramuros,is the 0.67-square-kilometer (0.26 sq mi) historic walled area within the city of Manila,the capital of the Philippines. It is administered by the Intramuros Administration with the help of the city government of Manila.
The Colegio de San Juan de Letran,also referred to by its acronym CSJL,is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers in Intramuros,Manila,Philippines. It was founded in 1620. Colegio de San Juan de Letran has the distinction of being the oldest college in the Philippines and the oldest secondary institution in Asia. The school has produced Philippine presidents,revolutionary heroes,poets,legislators,members of the clergy,jurists,and it is also one of the only Philippine schools that has produced several Catholic saints who lived and studied on its campus. The school's patron saint is St. John the Baptist. The campus contains two statues,representing the two foremost alumni in the fields of secular and religious service:former Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and Vietnamese Saint Vicente Liem de la Paz.
Lyceum of the Philippines University also referred to by its acronym LPU is a private,non-sectarian,coeducational higher education institution located at intramuros in the City of Manila,Philippines. It was founded in 1952 by JoséP. Laurel,who was the third president of the Republic of the Philippines.
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The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA),formerly the Philippine Tourism Authority,is an agency of the Philippine national government under the Department of Tourism responsible for implementing policies and programs of the department pertaining to the development,promotion,and supervision of tourism projects in the Philippines.
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The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM),also officially as the University of the City of Manila,is a municipal public university in Intramuros,Manila,Philippines. It is funded by the city government of Manila. The university was established on June 19,1965,and opened on July 17,1967,to 556 scholars,all coming from the top ten percent of graduates of Manila's public high schools.
Jaime del Carmen Laya,better known as Jimmy Laya is a Filipino banker,accountant,and cultural administrator who served as the first Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management of the Republic of the Philippines,serving from 1978 to 1981. He was also the 5th governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines from 1981 to 1984 and later served as the Minister of Education,Culture and Sports from 1984 until 1986. His terms in civil service,covered two significant points in Philippine history,the election that made former President Ferdinand Marcos have his third term and the assassination of the late Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. that stimulated the People Power Revolution of 1986.
Museo de Intramuros is an ecclesiastical museum operated and managed by the Intramuros Administration. It is located at the reconstructed San Ignacio Church and Convent within the historic walled area of Intramuros in Manila,Philippines.
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Marco Antonio Luisito Villanueva Sardillo III is a Filipino government official who previously served as the ninth Administrator of the Intramuros Administration,an attached agency of the Department of Tourism mandated with the authority to restore and guide the development of Intramuros,Manila. Prior to his appointment as Administrator of Intramuros,Sardillo was the executive director of the Presidential Commission on Good Government from 2010 to 2012.
Jose "Junjun" Antiquisa Capistrano,Jr.,was the former Administrator of the Intramuros Administration and the current President and CEO of Philippine Pharma Procurement Inc.,a subsidiary of the Philippine International Trading Corporation under the Department of Trade and Industry. He succeeded Eustacio Orobia in 1986 as the 3rd Intramuros Administrator until 1990,and Bambi Harper in 2010 as the 8th Administrator until 2013.
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The Club Intramuros Golf Course is a golf course situated on the periphery of the walled area of Intramuros in Manila,Philippines. It one of the oldest golf courses in the Philippines.
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The National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) is an agency of the Department of Tourism (DOT) of the Philippines that is mandated to develop,preserve,and manage Rizal Park (Luneta) and Paco Park in Manila and other parks that may be assigned to it. Its main office is located in the Old Planetarium Building,Padre Burgos Avenue,Rizal Park,Ermita,Manila. Both the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director are appointed by the President of the Philippines.
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- 1 2 New Intramuros administrator sworn in The Philippine Star website Accessed 24 September 2017
- 1 2 Intramuros Administration gets new administrator The Philippine Canadian Inquirer website Accessed 24 September 2017
- ↑ Guiller Asido Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority Website Accessed 23 November 2017