Glorietta Park (Caloocan City North)

 park, interesting place

Formerly known as Rev. Fr. Isaias S. Palamena Parade Ground

It is a public park located at the center of Tala Town Proper, a community in Barangay 188, Caloocan City North.The park occupies the central section of the former 808-hectare (2,000-acre) friar estate known as Hacienda Tala in the old municipality of Novaliches. This estate was puchased by the Philippine Commonwealth government under President Manuel Luis Quezon in 1938 for use as a leper colony to decongest and eventually replace the San Lazaro Hospital for Hansenites in Manila.[2] The Central Luzon Leprosarium, built in 1940, was eventually reduced to an area of 130 hectares (320 acres) in 1971 through Proclamation No. 843 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos which set aside 50 hectares (120 acres) for the National Housing Authority, 20 hectares (49 acres) for the Caloocan local government for use as a civic center containing its city hall, public high school, stadia and park to be located at its geographic center, 10 hectares (25 acres) for the Department of Social Welfare and Development bordering the planned civic center, and the remaining 589 hectares (1,460 acres) for housing and resettlement sites to be administered by the People's Homesite and Housing Corporation.The park is one of three city-owned parks in Caloocan under the management of the Caloocan Parks Administration Services. It is a playground for the residential neighbourhood with Covered Basketball Court, Tennis Court, Badminton Court, a small stage, and a Multi Purpose Hall.