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Highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines
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Parañaque is a city in southern Metro Manila. It contains the Entertainment City (E-City), the Little Las Vegas of Manila containing four huge casinos, and Baclaran, a residential and commercial neighborhood containing bustling flea markets, the Baclaran Church, backpacker inns and some nightclubs.
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Redemptorist Church, National Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
This Modernist Romanesque Catholic church completed in 1958 is an important landmark for Baclaran, and provides a serene atmosphere away from the area's gritty side. Every Wednesday, devotees to the Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the international Redemptorist movement flock this church to pray.
Cathedral Parish of St. Andrew
The original church was founded 1580, but were torn down in preparation of the invasion of the Chinese pirate Koxinga. The present cathedral was rebuilt somewhere in the 18th century.
Parañaque locals led by Don Galo, who became the namesake of the barangay nearby, helped the Spaniards to ward off an attack by the Chinese pirate Limahong off Manila Bay, but the waters nearby is now buried by land reclamation since the 1970s.
Founded in 1964, it is the first cemetery in the Philippines to open to cremations after the Catholic ban was lifted. Among the most notable buried here are Ninoy Aquino, who was assassinated in 1983 upon arrival at Manila International Airport, which was eventually renamed in his honor, Corazon Aquino, the first female president of the Philippines and also of Asia, who died in 2009 due to colon cancer, and Benigno Aquino III, the 15th president of the Philippines, who died in 2021; both lie together at a common tomb at a block off Bouganville Avenue.
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A rare thing, natural habitat extant in these parts. Here you can find a mangrove trail and marine views.
Opened in 2013 as the first resort and casino constructed in Entertainment City. Solaire Resort and Casino houses 5-star hotels and a casino, as well as a theater and other entertainment facilities.
It was planned as the Belle Grande Manila Bay. It is the second resort and casino to be built in Entertainment City. It houses six five star hotel buildings and a casino, as well as an animated movie-oriented theme park named DreamPlay Manila built with collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.
It houses a large fountain and a man-made indoor beach.
Four- to ten-bed fan or a/c dorms. Fully equipped Kitchen. Free Breakfast. Free Wi-Fi. Near the Manila airport. If you check in from 1AM till noon you pay ₱150.
Cozy homestay with wifi, a/c, and free breakfast. Rooms a little snug.
Garden-like homestay with free breakfast, wifi, and a/c. You can relax a bit from the city noise here.
Kind of basic lodging but the host is friendly and rooms are clean. Has wifi, a/c, and flat screen TV.
Restaurant, wifi, a/c. New clean hotel tower with cool blue tones.
Whitewashed guesthouse with friendly service and fulfilling breakfast (eggs, toast, etc).
Modern highrise with wifi and a/c and breakfast (surcharge).
Just another guesthouse with complimentary coffee and tea, wifi and a/c, and a nice garden.
A snazzy casino resort that sort of looks like a glass parabola lying on its side. Plenty of ways to indulge yourself here with restaurants and pool and gaming.
This definitely has a resort feel - lots of pools and play areas.
The first mall by the SM mall chain at the south of Manila, it has two buildings, connected together by a skybridge across C-5 Road Extension. Building A has a SM Hypermarket, and is larger, while Building B houses the anchored department store.
Duty Free Philippines' flagship store, sits just 200 meters from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1. This shopping haven boasts an extensive selection of foreign items, including chocolates, cigarettes, liquor, electronics, sporting goods, and supermarket items.
By train
LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) serves Parañaque directly since 2024, with trains running to Dr. Santos station (near SM City Sucat).
By bus
Provincial trips arrive at the second floor, and departing trips are at the ground floor. Tickets for outbound trips, regardless of distance, from PITX are prepurchased from the ticket booths.
By jeepney
There are many jeepneys in and out of Parañaque, most terminating at Baclaran
By car
The NAIA Expressway (NAIAx), an elevated toll expressway opened in 2016, terminates at Paranaque, making this easily reachable by car from Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Parañaque has a bad reputation for sprawl, with chronic traffic jams worsened by the dozens of gated communities feeding into them, nevertheless, public transportation is plentiful on the city's main roads.
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