Ask Filipinos to name any old cemetery in Manila, and many of them would readily list the La Loma, Manila Chinese and Manila North cemeteries in the city’s Santa Cruz district. Some would even add the Manila South Cemetery in Makati City (Metro Manila). Others would also cite Paco Cemetery — now known as Paco Park — in the Manila district of the same name.
Little would they imagine, however, that other, lesser-known cemeteries in Manila had existed during the late Spanish and early American colonial periods. More surprisingly, some of these were located in the unlikeliest of places. What now stands in these former — and, one must emphasize, completely cleaned-out — graveyards may surprise people.
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