Location: Intramuros, Manila
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: Unknown
Marker text:
EL PARIAN
FORMER SITE OF EL PARIAN, A CHINESE WALLED SUBURB, DESTROYED AND REBUILT SEVERAL TIMES, BOMBARDE FROM SAN GABRIEL BASTION, IN THE CHINESE UPRISING OF 1004, SET ON FIRE IN THE CHINESE INSURRECTION OF 1639, TRANSFERRED TO LA ESTACADA, BINONDO, IN 1644 BY GOVERNOR DIEGO FAJARDO, BUT BUILT AGAIN IN THIS DISTRICT, AND LATER MOVED TO ALCAYCARIA DE SAN JOSE, INTRAMUROS, BY GOVERNOR JOSE BASCO Y VARGAS IN 1786 FOR MILITARY REASONS, AND FINALLY DISPERSED IN 1860.
