Peoples Park in the Sky

The People's Park in the Sky, often actually called People's Park and at the beginning named Palace within the Sky, is a ancient city park in Tagaytay, Cavite, Philippines. The park turned into converted from an incomplete mansion, referred to as the Palace inside the Sky. It become constructed all through the Marcos technology to host the go to of US President Ronald Reagan. Work stopped whilst Reagan canceled his go to. The incomplete scaffolding of the mansion remained intact.

Imelda Marcos decided to build a mansion on top of Mount Sungay, which turned into at that point land owned by using the authorities. The summit before turned into used by the Bureau of Air Transport as a radar station. Construction of the Palace within the Sky started in 1981. The creation of the mansion turned into a tedious one as roads were constructed for materials to attain the pinnacle of the 2,500 toes Mount Gonzales. The mountain changed into leveled by way of bulldozers and farmers residing on the mountainside had been asked to relocate. Construction of the mansion became hastened whilst US President Ronald Reagan introduced his purpose to visit the Philippines in November 1983.