What do you do with a World War II tunnel? Well, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) wants to turn the one in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig into a museum and tourist site.
“The BCDA signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and the National Museum for the development of the Bonifacio War Tunnel,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
For those who want to see it before it gets jazzed up, the Bonifacio War Tunnel is located along the eastern portion of BGC. The report pointed out that “it was constructed by the Americans on Oct 15, 1941 to prepare for the anticipated attacks of Japanese forces. The Japanese later expanded the tunnel and used it as a bomb shelter against American air raids from October 1944 to March 1945.
According to the report, “of the original full 2.2 kilometers length of the tunnel, an estimated 730 meters remain unaffected by the development of Fort Bonifacio as of 2013.”
