EDSA (road)

The Epifanio de los Santos Avenue ( EDSA ) is an important thoroughfare in Metro Manila.

The mostly zehnspurig developed and formerly known as Highway 54 bypass envelops the actual center of Manila semicircular and runs through to the Metro Manila scoring cities Pasay, Makati, Mandaluyong, Quezon City, and Caloocan. On almost the entire length of EDSA Line 3 of the MRT along the same route runs, mostly between the two carriageways. The southern end of EDSA in Pasay, strictly speaking, the later -developed extension, marked a roundabout in front of the Mall of Asia. In Caloocan, the roundabout at the northern end of the Bonifacio Monument EDSA dar.

Previous names

When the road was built in the 1940s under President Manuel Quezon, she first received the name Junio ​​19 (June 19 ), after the birthday of the Philippine national hero Jose Rizal. After the end of World War II, however, when the Philippines was occupied by the U.S., the Americans named the road into Highway 54 This designation remained until the year 1959, when the road finally received its present name in honor of a famous personality. Epifanio de los Santos (actually Epifanio de los Santos y Cristóbal ) was a Filipino historian, intellectual, literary critic, lawyer and antiquary. 1925, three years before his death, he was appointed director of the Philippine National Museum and the National Library.

Significance in Philippine history

It was named after the scientist Epifanio de los Santos. In the recent Philippine history EDSA played as a scene of peaceful demonstrations, a role that brought two Philippine presidents to case. Firstly, the EDSA revolution in 1986 against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, and became known as EDSA II Revolution protests that eventually led to the 2001 overthrow of President Joseph Estrada.

• Street in the Philippines
• Metro Manila