“… Races and empires and religions have washed over it; the warlike have used thunder to claim it and the city, smiling, has allowed them their foolish moment. Age after age, its lovers have hailed its rebirth or bewailed its perishing, while outside continued the traffic for strange webs with Eastern merchants. And all this has been but as the sound of lyres and flutes.”

One of its native sons and certainly its most foremost chronicler, the late Nick “Quijano De Manila” Joaquin, thus described the city of Manila in his book “Manila, My Manila.”

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