Viva España!

Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines Jorge Domecq hosted the celebrations for La Fiesta Nacional de España, also known as the Dia de la Hispanidad or National Day, at his residence in North Forbes in Makati City. Observed every 12th of October, La Fiesta Nacional de España commemorates the day when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas in 1492.

No other Asian country shares deeper cultural and historical ties with the Philippines than Madre España, with the Spanish influence in our language, values, traditions and most specially, the Catholic religion still deeply felt to this very day. Photos by Ramon Joseph Ruiz