# Best Parks in Manila

Manila's green spaces, from a 58-hectare Spanish-era seafront park to a converted colonial cemetery and the city's last surviving urban forest. · community starter list

5 parks in Manila, including Rizal Park (Ermita, Manila). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, and the community's votes decide it from here.

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**Updated:** 2026-09-05 22:00:46

1. **[Rizal Park](/e/rizal-park---1959.md)** (park) — 58-hectare park tracing to the 1820 Paseo de Luneta; national hero Jose Rizal was executed here on December 30, 1896, and it remains a major public park run by the NPDC. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizal_Park, https://npdc.gov.ph/rizal-park/
2. **[Paco Park](/e/paco-park---1960.md)** (park) — Circular Spanish colonial cemetery built 1814-1822 where Jose Rizal and the GomBurZa priests were briefly interred; declared a National Park in 1966 and now hosts a Friday classical-concert series. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco_Park, https://npdc.gov.ph/paco-park/
3. **[Arroceros Forest Park](/e/arroceros-forest-park---1961.md)** (park) — 2.2-hectare park on Antonio Villegas Street in Ermita, declared a park in 1993 and made a permanent forest park by city ordinance in 2020; home to over 3,000 trees, called Manila's "last lung." — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1236423/manila-declares-arroceros-land-a-permanent-forest-park, https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/04/28/2351032/manilas-last-lung-remain-free-development
4. **[Ayala Triangle Gardens](/e/ayala-triangle-gardens---1962.md)** (park) — 2-hectare landscaped park opened November 19, 2009 on part of the former Nielson Field airport, Manila's pre-WWII airfield; hosts an annual Festival of Lights each November-January in the Makati CBD. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayala_Triangle_Gardens, https://www.ayalatriangle.com/gardens
5. **[Quezon Memorial Circle](/e/quezon-memorial-circle---1963.md)** (park) — Circular park whose cornerstone was laid in 1940; centered on a 66-metre art deco mausoleum shrine to President Manuel Quezon, built through the 1950s-1970s and free and open daily 5am-10pm. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quezon_Memorial_Circle, https://quezoncity.gov.ph/place/quezon-memorial-circle/

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