Malacañan Palace Sesquicentennial | Presidential Museum and Library

Resources

1. Timeline of the Philippine Presidency
2. Congress and the Presidency
3. The Presidential Referendum
4. Presidential Cars
5. Presidential Yachts
6. Presidential Planes
7. Presidential Trains
8. Presidential Music
9. First Ladies/Spouses
10. Vice Presidents

The 15 presidents of the Philippines from the Malolos Republic to the present, their respective biographies, presidential flags, and the laws and issuances they enacted.

5. Fourth Republic

a) Ferdinand E. Marcos
b) Corazon C. Aquino

6. Fifth Republic

a) Corazon C. Aquino
b) Fidel V. Ramos
c) Joseph Ejercito Estrada
d) Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
e) Benigno S. Aquino III

Important public messages, remarks, official statements and other documents by the presidents, past and present.

1. Inaugural addresses
2. Messages
3. Statements
4. Speeches
5. State of the nation addresses
6. Budget messages
7. Historical papers and documents
8. Appointments and designations
9. President’s Day

Articles and sources about the national flag and national anthem as symbols of Philippine sovereignty.

1. History of the Philippine Flag
2. Origin of the Symbols of our National Flag
3. Flags and Banners of the Colonial Era in the Philippines
4. The National Anthem’s Predecessor and Influences

The complete roster of the Honor Code of the Philippines that includes the Quezon Service Cross, Order of Lakandula, Order of Sikatuna, Philippine Legion of Honor, Order of National Artists, Order of National Scientists, among others.

More about Executive Order No. 236, s. 2003.

View roster of Filipino recipients of Foreign Awards.

Quezon Service Cross
Senior Honors

Order of Gabriela Silang
Cultural Honors

The protocols, ceremonies, and traditions that define and symbolize the Philippine presidency.

1. The Protocol, Ceremony, History, and Symbolism of the Presidential Inauguration
2. The Possession of Malacañan Palace
3. The State of the Nation Address: Traditions and History
4. Vin d’Honneur
5. Presidential Funerals

June 11, 2013 is the sesquicentennial of Malacañan Palace as official residence of the chief executive of the Philippines. In fulfillment of its mandate as custodian of the institutional memory of the Philippine Presidency, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) launches an online commemoration to mark one hundred fifty years since its conversion from rest house to official residence of Spanish and American Governors-General, and later, Philippine Presidents.

Statement of the Presidential Spokesperson on the Malacañan Sesquicentennial.

Institutional and Architectural History of Malacañan Palace

The Transformation of Malacañan Palace

References & Recommended Reading

A linear history of Malacañan Palace, its historic rooms and its state rooms.
Comprehensive biographies of the Presidents of the Philippines.
Essay: The Naming of Malacañan Palace.
Essay: The Possession of Malacañan Palace.
Essay: Malacañan Palace in the Time of Rizal.

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