The route of Legarda Street in Metro Manila. Legarda Street is highlighted in red. The street was named after Filipino legislator and resident commissioner to the United States, Benito Legarda y Tuason.
Legarda station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) system in Sampaloc, Manila. It is named after Legarda Street, where the station sits above it. The street in turn is named after Benito Legarda, a Filipino legislator.
In the beginning, Sampaloc was a barrio of Lucban called Dingin, consisting of three (3) sitios. It was named after a big tamarind tree found in the center of the settlement. Later the name was changed to Alfonso Trece in honor of the then King of Spain.
Legarda Street is a short street located in Sampaloc district in Manila, Philippines. It crosses through the eastern section of the University Belt area in a generally east-west orientation between the junction with Lac...
The University Belt is a de facto subdistrict in Manila, Philippines, referring to an area with a significant concentration of major colleges and universities in the city.
The city is most popularly referred to as the Pearl of the Orient. This nickname appears in the lyrics of the city's official hymn and is also depicted in the city's coat of arms. Manila is also frequently shortened to Mla or MNL (the IATA code for Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
Malabon is part of the sub-region of Metro Manila informally called CAMANAVA, an area which derives its name from the first syllable of its component cities: Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela. Caloocan lies to the south and east, Navotas to the west, and Valenzuela to the north.
At a whopping 58 letters long, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is officially the longest train station name in the UK. In fact, it's the longest place name in all of Europe, and only second in the world – thanks to an 85-letter town name in New Zealand.
Pancras. Waterloo is the third busiest station in the UK, and was formerly the busiest railway station in the UK, handling 57.8 million passengers in the year to March 2023. It is also the UK's largest station in terms of floor space and has the greatest number of platforms.
In August 2014, Congress passed legislation to rename the station William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in honor of William H. Gray III, a former U.S. Congressman from the Philadelphia area.
Mendiola Street starts at the intersection of Legarda Street and Claro M. Recto Avenue and ends at Jose Laurel Street, just outside Malacañang Palace. Four colleges and universities forming part of the University Belt are on Mendiola Street.
Recto Avenue, more popularly known as simply Recto, is the principal commercial thoroughfare in north-central Manila, Philippines. It spans six districts just north of the Pasig River in what is generally considered Manila's old downtown area. The route of Recto Avenue in Metro Manila.
The western terminus of the line is the Recto station at Recto Avenue, while the eastern terminus of the line is the Antipolo station along Marikina–Infanta Highway.
The six-story, 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft) Sta. Lucia Business Center, which is located next to the mall. It will have a retail space on the first and second floors, and office spaces on the rest of the floors. It will be directly connected to the Line 2 Marikina-Pasig station and to the mall itself.
Recto station was constructed as part of Phase 2 of the LRT Line 2 project. It opened on October 29, 2004, replacing Legarda as the western terminus of the line.
Binondo. Binondo (Chinese: 岷倫洛; pinyin: Mínlúnluò; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bîn-lûn-lo̍h; Tagalog: Distrito ng Binondo) is a district in Manila and is referred to as the city's Chinatown.
It is referred to as the University Belt or simply called "U-Belt" for numerous colleges and universities are found within the district such as the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest extant university in Asia; the National University, the first private nonsectarian and coeducational institution in the Philippines; ...
Through the efforts of Juan Pineda who became "absolute" in 1892, Sampaloc became a municipality. It was named after a big tamarind tree found in the center of the settlement.
A statue of Roces presently stands at Mendiola Street in Manila. He died of cancer on September 30, 1988, at the age of 75 in Manila, Philippines. In that same year, Pasong Tamo Street, one of the main roads in Makati, was renamed Chino Roces Avenue in his honor.
Rizal Avenue, Avenida Rizal or simply Avenida, is one of Manila's main thoroughfares, running with two to six lanes from its Santa Cruz and Quiapo districts to the Bonifacio Monument (Monumento) Circle in Caloocan. Named after the José Rizal, one of the Philippine national heroes, it is a part of Radial Road 9 (R-9).
On January 30, 1970, the "Battle of Mendiola," named after a street in front of the Malacañang Palace, the presidential mansion, pitted student demonstrators, who tried to storm the palace, against riot police and resulted in many injuries.
