Historical Attractions in Makati Philippines

Guadalupe Ruins (Nuestra Señora de Gracia Church)
Location: Bernadino Street, Guadalupe Viejo
Doric architecture with massive buttresses to support its vault of hewn stones taken from the still visible but extinct Guadalupe quarry. Free from ornamentations, its walls are solid and stable and built in such a way that they still stand today as when the church was completed in 1629.

Saints Peter and Paul Church
Location: D. M. Rivera Street, Poblacion
Located at Barangay Poblacion, it was built in 1620. Architecture is typical of the colonial mission churches: a rectangular single-nave plan composed of the nave, apse and sacristy. A three-tiered papal tiara and keys, symbols of the Papacy, the first being St. Peter who, together with St. Paul, is the patron of the locality, dominate the façade. The altar with carved retablo is the focal point.

Museo ng Makati
Location: J. P. Rizal Street, Poblacion
The Museo ng Makati on J. P. Rizal Street in Poblacion is the repository of Makati's heritage and culture. The museo building itself offers a slice of Makati's history. Constructed in 1918, the building served as the town hall of Makati from 1918 until 1961. The community museum houses ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, including fossil remains of pre-historic animals and earthenware. The history

The Filipinas Heritage Library
Location: Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle
From its beginnings as part of the Ayala Museum, it found its new home in 1996 in the historic Nielson Tower, the country's first commercial airport. The Filipinas Heritage Library is described as an electronic library: it discharges the traditional library functions of information storage, retrieval, and dissemination using the latest information and telecommunication technologies. The Library aims to become a one-stop eletronic research center on the Philippines, linked to local and international libraries. In addition, it is engaged in digitization projects, CD-ROM publishing, as well as the development of web pages and electronic databases.

Libingan ng mga Bayani
Location: Within the Ft. Bonifacio Army Reservations
The resting place of 33,520 Filipino soldiers who were killed in Corregidor, Bataan and throughout the country during World War II. It is where the tomb of the Unknown Soldier is enshrined, as well as the headstones of Filipino statesmen.

The American Cemetery and Memorial
Location: Within the Ft. Bonifacio Army Reservations
Adjacent to the Libingan ng mga Bayani, the American Cemetery and Memorial stands as a solemn reminder of the heroism of American soldiers during World War II.

Significant battles of World War II are engraved on the walls of the Memorial. Information on significant military events are depicted and recorded in the map rooms, with 25 intricately designed maps, and in the battle museum in glass mosaic mixed with tinted concrete and colored fine aggregates.

Completed in 1960, architect and landscape designer Gardner A. Daly of San Francisco took pains in keeping its park-like setting perpetually green and bloom.