CASA MANILA in a nutshell
* run by the Intramuros administration
* a “colonial” lifestyle museum
* facade is copied from a house (c. 1850) at Calle Jaboneros in San Nicolas
* walls of the ground floors are made o adobe stones

What you’ll see
* Zaguan and Patio-Zaguanis a Arabic word meaning “corridor”. It is through the zaguan that the carriages or carruajes entered, dropping off passengers by the stairs.
*Entresuelo- The word entresuelo literally means “between floors”. This is the area where clients, tenants, or estate managers (if the owner was a rich landowner) wait before being admitted to the oficina (office).
* Despacho or Oficina- This is where the owner of the house conducted business together with his clerks or accountants.
*Cuartos- The Filipino family is quite extended. More often than not, an unmarried aunt or uncle lived with the nuclear family aside from the grandmother and the grandfather. They may occupy the bedrooms in the […]

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