The Gates of Intramuros (Filipino Pinto ng Intramuros, Daanan ng Intramuros or Tarangkahan ng Intramuros, Spanish; Puerta de Intramuros or Puertas de Intramuros) refers to the old original gates of the Walled City of Intramuros in Manila, built during the Spanish Colonial Era in the Republic of the Philippines. The gates are called either in the original Spanish word for "gate", Puerta (plural: Puertas), or English, Gate.
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“We’ve cracked the hemispheres with careless hand!
Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood
Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
Whelms us to the tired world where tasseling corn,
Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
Rot on the vine: in the land were we born.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of exiles.”
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)