Paco Park

Paco Park, Manila

December  8, 2009

Paco Park is a recreational garden area and was once Manila’s municipal cemetery for the well-off and established aristocratic Spanish families who resided in the old Manila during the Spanish colonial period,  located along General Luna St. and at the east end of Padre Faura Street in Paco district in the City of Manila.

The cemetery is circular in shape, with an iner circular fort that was the original cemetery and with the niches that were placed or located within the hollow walls. As the population continued to grow, a second outer wall was built with the thick adobe walls were hollowed as niches and the top of the walls were made into pathways for promenades. A Roman Catholic chapel was built inside the walls of the Paco Park and it was dedicated to St. Pancratius.

The Park is full of plants and century old acacia and frangipani trees. In the middle of the park there is a large fountain.