Plaza San Luis is an impressive collection of Philippine colonial houses.
In the 1980’s, the agency bought a property across the historic San Agustin Church and constructed five replica houses representing domestic architecture built during the Spanish regime.
The complex was aptly named Plaza San Luis – after one of the original four barrios of Intramuros.
The plaza consists of Casa Blanca, Casa Urdaneta, Los Hidalgos, El Hogar Filipino, and Casa Manila. The replica houses where constructed based from archival building plans.
Casa Manila was based on a photograph of a three-storey house in San Nicholas District. Its ground floor houses shops while the second and third floor was conceptualized as a lifestyle museum showcasing colonial furniture amassed from different ancestral houses.
Source:
http://traveleronfoot.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/plaza-san-luis-intramuros/
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