Fort Pilar is now a shrine for candles and a place for mass and people to walk around on the weekends.
It was not always this boring. Just reading the history of this
magnificent fort can give you goose bumps.
Imagine, if you will, 3000
Moro invaders attacking this fort and destroying it in the 1700's.
This fort was originally built to protect from invaders and pirates
from the southern Mindanao and Jolo in the year 1635 by a Jesuit
priest, Melchor de Vera for the Spanish govt. They originally called it
the "Real Fuerzade San Jose" and later changed to "Real Fuerza de
Nuestra Senora del Pilar de Zaragoza".
After a while people got sick of the long name and just called it Ft. Pilar.
The Dutch, the Moros, British, Japanese, and Americans all had some fun
blasting away at it but now it leads a boring life indeed.
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