The Blumentritt station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Blumentritt station is above-ground. The station serves the districts of Tondo, Santa Cruz, and Sampaloc in Manila. The station itself is located near Blumentritt Road, which the station was named after. The street itself is named to honor Bohemian professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, one of José Rizal's closest associates and a sympathizer of the Propaganda Movement.
Doroteo Jose station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Doroteo Jose station is above-ground. The station is located in Santa Cruz in Manila, on Rizal Avenue and slightly past Doroteo Jose Street. The station is named after Doroteo Jose Street, which is in turn named after a Filipino who was arrested by Spanish authorities in 1898 for leading a movement against a corrupt archbishop.
Central Terminal station, sometimes called Central or Arroceros station, is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other LRT-1 stations, Central Terminal is above-ground. It is located in Ermita in Manila. A popular name for the station is Arroceros, due to its location close to the Arroceros Forest Park.
Gil Puyat station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Gil Puyat station is above-ground. The station is located in Pasay and is named because the station lies immediately above Gil Puyat Avenue. The avenue itself is named for Gil Puyat, a late senator and statesman.
Vito Cruz station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Vito Cruz station is above-ground. The station serves Malate in Manila and is the first station from Baclaran and the last station from Roosevelt to lie within Manila city bounds. The station takes its name from the former Vito Cruz Street, which was named after a former alcalde mayor of Pasay ca.1871.
Carriedo station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Carriedo station is above-ground. The station is located in Santa Cruz in Manila. The station is named after Carriedo Street, which is near the station. It is the only station in the entire line with a canopy roof.
Pedro Gil station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Pedro Gil station is above-ground. The station serves Ermita in Manila and is located at the corner of Taft Avenue and Pedro Gil Street. The station takes its name from Pedro Gil Street, which used to be named Herran Street.
Quirino station, also known as Quirino Avenue station, is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Quirino Avenue station is above-ground. The station serves Malate in Manila and is located at the meeting point of Taft Avenue, Quirino Avenue and San Andres Street. The station is named after Quirino Avenue, which is in turn named after former president Elpidio Quirino.
Shaw Boulevard station, also called Shaw for short, is a station on the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3. Shaw Boulevard station is one of the many elevated stations that can be found on the line and is also considered as the "central terminal" of the line. Also, this is the only station with 3 tracks, 1 reserve track for temporary parking of disabled trains and termination track when train service changes and 2 for regular train service, and also the only elevated station in the line to feature a concourse on top of the platforms at the 3rd level. The station is located in the Mandaluyong portion of Ortigas Center and is named after Shaw Boulevard, since the station lies directly above the boulevard.
Santa Cruz is a district in the northern part of the City of Manila, Philippines, located on the right bank of the Pasig River near its mouth, bordered by the districts of Tondo, Binondo, Quiapo, and Sampaloc, and Grace Park and La Loma. The district belongs to the 3rd congressional district of Manila in the Philippines.
Boni station, also called Boni Avenue station, is a station on the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3. It is the eighth station for trains headed to Taft Avenue and the sixth station for trains headed to North Avenue. It has several restaurants and shops that surround the station, including a public market located across the train station.
The Abad Santos station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Abad Santos station is above-ground. The station serves Tondo and Sta. Cruz both in Manila and is located on Rizal Avenue in Barangay Manuguit, Tondo. The station is named after Abad Santos Avenue, which in turn, is named after José Abad Santos, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, who was executed by the Japanese invading forces during World War II.
Bambang station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Bambang station is above-ground. The station is located in Santa Cruz in Manila, on Rizal Avenue. The station is named after Bambang street, the street right beside the station.
R. Papa station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, R. Papa station is above-ground. The station serves Tondo in Manila and is located on Rizal Avenue Extension in Barangay Obrero, Tondo. The station is named after Ricardo Papa Street. The station is the first station in Rizal Avenue Extension going north and the last station in the city of Manila.
5th Avenue station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, 5th Avenue station is above-ground. The station is located on Rizal Avenue Extension at the boundaries of Grace Park East and Grace Park West in Caloocan. The station is right beside 5th Avenue or C-3 Road, where the station got its name.
Blumentritt station is a station on the South Main Line ("Southrail") of the Philippine National Railways. Like all PNR stations, it is at grade. It is located at the corner of Old Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue in Santa Cruz, Manila and derives its name from nearby Blumentritt Road, which is named after the Bohemian professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, friend of José Rizal and sympathizer of the Filipino cause.
Rizal Avenue also known as Avenida or Avenida Rizal is one of Manila's main thoroughfares. Named after the national hero José Rizal, it is a part of Radial Road 9 (R-9). The LRTA's Line 1 elevated railroad is built above the street in its entire length, and several jeepneys ply the area taking passengers from Caloocan and Quezon City. Most of the street is within the Sta. Cruz. By the 1960s, economic activities shifted from Binondo to Makati.
Tayuman Street is a four-lane east-west street in northern Manila, Philippines. It stretches 1.6 kilometers from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district. The street is designated as part of Circumferential Road 2.
San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park is the marketing name given to the 16-hectare (40-acre) multiple use site under development by the Manila Jockey Club Investments Corp. in Manila, Philippines. It takes its name from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome, a horse racetrack that stood on the site from 1912 to 2003. Currently, the site includes the SM City San Lazaro shopping center, the two-tower Vertex office complex, the three-tower Celadon Park and Celadon Residences, and the five-tower Avida Towers San Lazaro condominium complex. It has been declared a tourism economic zone with information technology component in 2009.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Philippine capital region of Metro Manila.
