Fort Pilar (Zamboanga City)

Philippines / Western Mindanao / Zamboanga / Zamboanga City
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Fort Pilar (El Real Fuerza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza) is a 17th century military defense fortress built by the Spanish colonial government in Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island in the Philippines.

In defense against pirates and raiders of the sultans of Mindanao and Jolo and upon the requests of the Jesuit missionaries and Bishop Fray Pedro of Cebu prompted the Spanish governor Don Juan Cerezo Salamanca to approve the building of a stone fort in the year 1635. The fort was originally called "El Real Fuerza de San Jose".
(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Is now an outdoor Roman Catholic Marian shrine and a museum, and considered a major landmark of Zamboanga City and a symbol of the city's cultural heritage.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pilar
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Coordinates:   6°54'3"N   122°4'56"E

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  • dey say it's miraculous! well... it doesn't really matter 2 me... i juz luv the place! it's so nice, beautiful! so enchanting! well that's fo me!^_^
  • THIS PLACE WAS VERY MEMORABLE TO ME BECAUSE IN THIS PLACE WE BUILT OUR FRIENDSHIP MORE STRONGER THE MOMENT WE VISIT HERE EVERY FRIDAY DURING OUR COLLEGE LIFE.
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