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The Spanish in Manila: How the Galleon Trade Created a Global City
In the late 16th century, a small Malay fishing village became the hinge of a global empire. When Miguel López de Legazpi founded Manila in 1571, he couldn't have imagined it would soon rival Seville and Mexico City as a crossroads of silver, silks, spices, and souls. This episode dives into the making of Manila as a colonial capital: how the Spanish transformed a Muslim settlement into a walled Catholic city, the Intramuros. We explore the role of the Sangley Chinese—merchants, artisans, and laborers who built the city and were confined to the Parián, a ghetto that was both a market and…
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