ferdinand magellan named the country 'islas de san lazaro'.
who named the country 'islas de san lazaro'?
ferdinand magellan
bullet::::- las islas de poniente (islands to the west). another name from ferdinand magellan in 1521 when he learned that the "las islas de san lázaro" also included cebu and leyte islands. however, various sources claimed that magellan was not the one who renamed the area, but his chroniclers instead. the name came from the fact that the islands were reached from spain en route approaching the left part of the globe. conversely, the portuguese called the archipelago ilhas do oriente (islands to the east) because they approached the islands from the east of portugal in the late 1540s.
names of the philippines
the site of espada cemetery was between present-day calle espada to the east and calles vapor and san lazaro. the main cemetery entrance was on calle san lazaro, most of the funeral processions went down calle san lazaro. the hospital de san lazaro had its entrance pediment facing present day calle marina, the area was the edge of the city originally known as barrio san lazaro. the torreón de san lázaro built in 1655 is located at the intersections of calles vaor and marina. the san dionisio hospital, created by the initiative of captain general francisco dionisio vives and by bishop espada, was exclusively for mentally ill men and located between the hospital of san lazaro and the general cemetery. in the same area was also a room of the real casa de beneficencia, intended exclusively for demented women, but this had its front to calle belascoaín. the quarry of san lazaro where jose marti had been imprisoned in 1870, was to the east. in front of the casa de beneficencia was the bateria de la reina which was named after the count of santa clara, juan procopio bassecourt, governor of cuba, who built the battery between 1797 and 1799.
espada cemetery