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Makati City Historical Tourist Attractions

Guadalupe Ruins (Nuestra Señora de Gracia Church). (Bernadino Street, Guadalupe Viejo)
Doric architecture with massive buttresses to support its vault of hewn stones taken from the still visible but extinct Guadalupe quarry. Free from ornamentations, its walls are solid and stable and built in such a way that they still stand today as when the church was completed in 1629.

Saints Peter and Paul Church. (D. M. Rivera Street, Poblacion)
Located at Barangay Poblacion, it was built in 1620. Architecture is typical of the colonial mission churches: a rectangular single-nave plan composed of the nave, apse and sacristy. A three-tiered papal tiara and keys, symbols of the Papacy, the first being St. Peter who, together with St. Paul, is the patron of the locality, dominate the façade. The altar with carved retablo is the focal point.

Museo ng Makati (J. P. Rizal Street, Poblacion)
The Museo ng Makati on J. P. Rizal Street in Poblacion is the repository of Makati's heritage and culture. The museo building itself offers a slice of Makati's history. Constructed in 1918, the building served as the town hall of Makati from 1918 until 1961. The community museum houses ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, including fossil remains of pre-historic animals and earthenware. The history of Makati is shown in a collection of rare photographs, dioramas, and murals.

The Filipinas Heritage Library (Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle)
From its beginnings as part of the Ayala Museum, it found its new home in 1996 in the historic Nielson Tower, the country's first commercial airport. The Filipinas Heritage Library is described as an electronic library: it discharges the traditional library functions of information storage, retrieval, and dissemination using the latest information and telecommunication technologies. The Library aims to become a one-stop eletronic research center on the Philippines, linked to local and international libraries. In addition, it is engaged in digitization projects, CD-ROM publishing, as well as the development of web pages and electronic databases.

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