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TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN MARIKINA CITY

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DID YOU KNOW:

The City of Marikina, dubbed as the country's
shoemaking capital, aims for world attention
as ten craftsmen from the Marikina Colossal
Attractions: Footwear Foundation create what would be
the world's biggest pair of shoes in an
attempt to break into the Guiness Book of
World Records. The shoes when completed
would be 5.5 meters long, 2.0 meters wide,
and 1.98 meters high. Fifteen persons can fit
into one shoe. The record-breaking pair
should fit someone who is 125 feet tall. The
shoes cost 1.5 million pesos and have about
200,000 stitches using 1,000 meters of
thread. The materials used to create the
enormous pair can produce 250 pairs of
regular shoes.

The Kapitan Moy Building, now the

Sentrong Pangkultura ng Marikina, is a
two-century old building once owned by Don
Laureano "Kapitan Moy" Guevarra, the
Father of the Shoe Industry, was declared a
historical shrine by the National Historical
Institute. It was here that shoe manufacturing
started in 1887 by the group of Don Laureano
that discovered the proper method of making
footwear. The house was brought and
converted into a home for needy residents by
Dona Teresa de la Paz. It was used as a
primary school for many years. In 1993, the
local government of Marikina turned it into a
cultural center.

Sentrong Pangkultura