File talk:Ermita de Porta Vaga Tower.JPG
Name of church[edit]
Picture shows NOT the La Ermita de Nuestra Señora dela Soledad de Porta Vaga picture shows the belfry of Sta Monica Church
This bell tower is the same bell tower on the picture of Ermita (Chapel) de Porta Vaga to the right. The church is that of Porta Vaga because it was constructed next to the gate and wall (please check the wall in the picture) of Porta Vaga where the Virgin Mary allegedly made an apparition. Please, show your proof that that is indeed the Santa Monica Church. For now, I'm changing it back to Ermita de Porta Vaga. Briarfallen (talk) 18:54, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
You may be right. After I checked the location of the ruins on a satellite map, it is located in the middle of the old port city of Cavite and far from the old walls where the Church of Porta Vaga was adjacent to, therefore this is not the Porta Vaga tower. Also, I checked the old skyline picture of the city in 1899 (below the other picture) at maximum resolution (I think Santa Monica church is probably the one in the middle of the picture with the farther Porta Vaga tower to the left of it.), and noticed that the two churches have similar looking bell towers with similar details and shape, which accounts for the confusion. And upon a closer look of this picture (the bell tower in dispute), the tower has four levels, while the Porta Vaga (from the picture above) has three levels. Therefore in my opinion, this could not be the Porta Vaga tower but most probably Santa Monica Church. Briarfallen (talk) 17:13, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
