Marikina’s giant pair of shoes – measuring 5.5 meters (18 feet) in length, 2.25 meters (7.4 feet) in width and1.83 (six feet) meters in height – stomped its class on its nearest rival ...

Marikina, to many Filipinos, is synonymous with shoes, the same way that ducks and balut are traditionally associated with Pateros, jewelry-making with Meycauayan, balisong with Batangas, and lechon ...

In 1956, Marikina was named the Shoe Capital of the Philippines ... when SM was not the giant it is today. Back then, we saw all the hard work he put into the business that has since flourished.

MARIKINA, Philippines — Imelda Marcos touched ... A pedestrian bridge in the city is covered with two giant steel shoes. A shoe statue stands before City Hall. But officials admit the museum ...

Our map takes us three streets down to the Marikina river, its bank marked with a huge statue of a shoeless woman and, even more bizarrely, two giant high-heeled shoes floating on midstream barges.

Despite what shoemakers and shop owners describe as the city’s stagnant shoemaking industry, Marikina still remains very much tied to the image of shoes. A giant heeled shoe once floated on a ...

This historic structure has been declared a national shrine —ROMY HOMILLADA Of many Marikina landmarks, probably none more fully represents the place and its people than the Shoe Museum.

The exceptional quality of Marikina’s shoes not only resulted in stores lining the town’s main thoroughfares but also expanded their presence in commercial hubs like Santa Cruz and Quiapo in ...

With over 40 percent of its residents employed in the shoe industry, Marikina, situated near the capital of Manila, is popularly called the shoe capital of the Philippines. Last Friday ...

MARIKINA opened on Monday the city's annual Balik Eskwela (back-to-school) Shoe Bazaar. Known as the shoe capital of the Philippines, Marikina opened the bazaar featuring 43 leather products stalls.