...great cities like Manila are established where rivers meet the sea and because of 300 years Manila/Acapulco Galleon Trade unstoppable immigration of Chinese selling chinese products exported in the Americas made Manila the world’s trading center and Binondo became the entrepot and the formation of “Sangley Parian" (“Chinese Flea-market” from Chinese “xiang lei” for traveling merchants and “palien” meaning federation). The original parian was at Mehan Garden (now Liwasang Bonifacio), the reason why the peninsulares’ Intramuros gate on that location is called “Parian Gate.” The parian was reserved only to baptized Catholic Chinese who were allowed to sell their goods, those unbaptized have to stay at Cavite’s Sangley Point where galleons were built. The parian at Mehan Garden just outside the peninsulares Intramuros was getting over crowded, Governor-General Luis Perez Dasmariñas because of continuous Chinese migration scared of another Sangley uprising he donated his “Isla de Binundok" (original name of Binondo because it’s hilly, surrounded by Pasig River and esteros), tax free which he purchased from Don Antonio Velada for 200 pesos. He ordered to move the Sangley Parian to Calle Sacrista (now Ongpin).
Governor-General Dasmariñas asked the Dominicans to take charge of converting the Chinese to catholicism, build a church in the honor of San Gabriel which is today’s Binondo Church though later its patroness became Nuetra Senora de Santissimo Rosario. Up to this day the main streets of Binondo- Calle Dasmariñas and Calle Rosario (now Quintin Paredes) were named in their honor. Because Binondo is an island, peninsulares of Intramuros have to take “casco” ferry crossing Pasig River to shop in Binondo. “Puente España” (Bridge of Spain) was built in 1632 by the Chineses to allow easier access and to continue the patronage of peninsulares. The bridge was near “Puerta Isabela II” of Intramuros that spanned to Calle Nueva (now E.T. Yuchengco St), cross street is Escolta where on the foot of the bridge were horse-carts waiting for peninsulares to be “escorted” (hence the name “Escolta” from Spanish word “escoltar”) in Binondo/San Nicolas to shop. Binondo became progressive shopping center that Chinese merchants extended the parian to its neighboring district “Barrio Baybay,” renamed “San Nicolas” in honor of their patron saint San Nicolas Tolentino the patron saint of merchants. The name of the streets of Binondo/San Nicolas can not be left unnoticed to this day, if they are not names of places in Spain like: Barcelona, Sevilla, Numancia, Madrid, they are: Aceiteros, Fundidor, Jaboneros, Arroceros, Caballeros, Fumadores, etc. products which Chinese merchants were selling on those streets.
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Governor-General Dasmariñas asked the Dominicans to take charge of converting the Chinese to catholicism, build a church in the honor of San Gabriel which is today’s Binondo Church though later its patroness became Nuetra Senora de Santissimo Rosario. Up to this day the main streets of Binondo- Calle Dasmariñas and Calle Rosario (now Quintin Paredes) were named in their honor. Because Binondo is an island, peninsulares of Intramuros have to take “casco” ferry crossing Pasig River to shop in Binondo. “Puente España” (Bridge of Spain) was built in 1632 by the Chineses to allow easier access and to continue the patronage of peninsulares. The bridge was near “Puerta Isabela II” of Intramuros that spanned to Calle Nueva (now E.T. Yuchengco St), cross street is Escolta where on the foot of the bridge were horse-carts waiting for peninsulares to be “escorted” (hence the name “Escolta” from Spanish word “escoltar”) in Binondo/San Nicolas to shop. Binondo became progressive shopping center that Chinese merchants extended the parian to its neighboring district “Barrio Baybay,” renamed “San Nicolas” in honor of their patron saint San Nicolas Tolentino the patron saint of merchants. The name of the streets of Binondo/San Nicolas can not be left unnoticed to this day, if they are not names of places in Spain like: Barcelona, Sevilla, Numancia, Madrid, they are: Aceiteros, Fundidor, Jaboneros, Arroceros, Caballeros, Fumadores, etc. products which Chinese merchants were selling on those streets.
- ka tony
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