Dantruong Travel & Tourism

“Praise to the Lord when they opened my closet, they found shoes, not the framework of people.” possible expression of women who were born in a large province in Leyte and Tacloban on July 2, 1929 that led to the idea of opening a museum of shoes Imelda in Makati, Philippines.

Makati itself a financial center and home to the skyscrapers, stock exchange, banks, malls, restaurants, hotels and elite settlements. At the time of Spanish colonization, this region has the Augustinian Friars.

In the year 1950 – an, family MacMiking and Zobel de Ayala began to build this area in a very short time. Finally, the Makati became the best shopping centers, fashion boutiques, hotels and five star restaurants, exclusive jewelry shops and antique stores, shoe stores, bookstores and others.

Here also reside in the area among the Forbes Park. The town has a land area of 29.9 square km is inhabited by more than 4176 census. Geographic location of this town is adjacent to the river Pasig northeast and southeast, west side Pasay City, Philippines Air Force HQ (Villamor Air Base) – Magallanes and Merville Park on the west side Parañaque, and Ayala Alabang in Muntinlupa south.

One of the famous is the museum Imelda. Museum in Makati these shoes other than to remind the luxury Romuáldez Imelda Marcos. In addition to symbolizing how local products can be successful in the marketplace.

Imelda, as one user indirectly promote it throughout the world. Even some of the local product collection pretty Imelda displayed in the museum adjacent to City Hall.

At that time, the Mayor allow tourists who follow the activities of the Asian Sub Regional Youth Summit to capture a collection of cameras and video. White-painted building that stores a collection of women who had accompanied former President Marcos ruled for 20 years is.

Judging from the quality and quantity of shoes there, tourists must have agreed that the lady Marcos had been named one of the ten richest woman in the world, though eventually went bankrupt.

From the life of former Miss Philippines won two, dubbed the “Muse of Manila” because the jury’s protest, the government seized 1220 pairs of shoes, 500 dresses and 300 bras (which one of them bulletproof and stored at Malacanang palace accompanied five pairs of satin shoes from local products , 2 Imelda pretty dress, parasol, paintings, furniture, silver and furniture).

Children – children, Imee and Bong Bong who also were involved in the political realm must be seen clearly nostalgic luxury of the father of the clan-mothers in this shoe museum.

Former minister of transmigration and ecology is entering the age of 70 years and now inhabit an elite condominium in the central area of Manila, after five years earlier fled to Hawaii in the “people power” and corruption cases.

Women are certainly proud fop with a collection of shoes that were excessive in number, although some time ago had a fit because – because the film “Imelda”. There’s no denying he had interviewed for a student thesis film at Stanford University, Ramona S. Diaz who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

At that time, the woman dubbed the butterfly – iron butterfly is not going to expect commercial films. Later films cinematography award at Park City Utah, United States in an independent Sundance festival with the theme of this humanitarian and human rights protests Imelda Marcos through the local courts.

But women who become soul mates Marcos was finally defeated until the film is freely circulating in any region including the Philippines. Lucky that it did not prevent news of interest to tourists to visit the shoe museum. At that time there are tourists visiting 50 people over a period of two hours.

Museum locations of married women’s shoes in 1954 with Marcos is located in downtown Makati. Two-storey building which is used as a museum, yet modest extent capable of storing various kolesi such as 3000 pairs of Imelda’s shoes when the following photograph – where – with whom wear shoes, shoe size to win a giant in a contest, a collection of miniature ceramic shoes of different shape state, shoe sewing equipment, photographs Imelda Marcos, the traditional Barong shirt guy or the Philippines, the fragments making shoes and many more.

Sap-glass window of the seven who embody shoes and photos – photos Imelda is fenced by a wall surrounding a blue rope with aluminum metal pole.

Java couples slippers also have to make dideretannya Javanese tourists will develop a smile. From the picture – a picture frame framed photograph pretty clear how the woman who had been governor of Manila is a very sow the beauty and the beauty of the boom until now.

Even when the film crew reportedly “Imelda” was touring around the Philippines, the former Philippine first lady since 1964 is also divided – eksennya out in the picture. Many pointed to the museum is showing some sign – a sign of corruption and the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Apart from it all, the museum is still a Philippine tourism assets are attractive, especially for the weaker sex shoe lovers or collectors.