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Star City is a 35,000 m 2 (380,000 sq ft) amusement park in Pasay, Philippines. It is located in the reclaimed area of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex , part of Bay City . The facility is owned by Star Parks Corporation, a subsidiary of Elizalde Holdings Corporation (the holding company of the FJE Group of Companies).
Binondo. (2020 [ 1 ]) Binondo ( Chinese : 岷倫洛; pinyin : Mínlúnluò; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Bîn-lûn-lo̍h) is a district in Manila and is referred to as the city's Chinatown. [ 2 ] Its influence extends beyond to the places of Quiapo, Santa Cruz, San Nicolas and Tondo.
Manila Mint (Old La Intendencia Building) In 1920, the Manila Mint was reopened under United States auspices, [ 1] and was the first (and to date only) U.S. branch mint located outside the Continental United States. It produced coins until 1922 and then again from 1925 to 1941, when the Japanese Empire invaded the Philippines during World War II.
The Philippine peso is ultimately derived from the Spanish peso or pieces of eight brought over in large quantities by the Manila galleons of the 16th to 19th centuries. From the same Spanish peso or dollar is derived the various pesos of Latin America, the dollars of the US and Hong Kong, as well as the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen. [1 ...
Years of printing. 1973 to 1985. The Ang Bagong Lipunan Series (literally, ”The New Society Series") is the name used to refer to Philippine banknotes and coins issued by the Central Bank of the Philippines from 1973 to 1985. It was succeeded by the New Design series of banknotes. The lowest denomination of the series is 2- piso and the ...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, also known as the CCP Complex, is an 88-hectare (220-acre) art district managed by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) located along Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a mixed-use cultural and tourism hub overlooking Manila Bay in south-central Manila, most of which fall ...
Taguig ( Tagalog: [taˈɡiɡ] ⓘ ), officially the City of Taguig ( Filipino: Lungsod ng Taguig ), is a coastal city located in eastern shores of Metro Manila. It is the fifth-most populous city in the Philippines with a population of 1.2 million people. [ 4] The city is one of the Philippines' cultural, financial, high-tech, entertainment and ...
The Philippine ten-peso coin (₱10) is the second largest denomination coin of the Philippine peso . Two versions of this denomination are in circulation; the bi-metallic coin, first issued in 2000, with the dual profiles of Andrés Bonifacio and Apolinario Mabini on obverse and the 1993 logo of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on the reverse.