Today the house is a tourist attraction. People have been coming in droves to see the antiques as much as to ogle at the wasteful richness that their former president and his family surrounded themselves with.
The house contains ceramics, Russian religious icons, Persian carpets, Ming vases, musical instruments and Imelda Marcos' Olympic-size swimming pool.
After the People's Power Revolution in 1986, which saw the late dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, and his family go into exile, the mansion is slowly deteriorating and is in desperate need of repairs.
For all the people's money lavished on decorating the palace, Imelda stayed there only one night!
Having come out of exile after her husband death in Hawaii in 1989, Imelda Marcos, 75, lives in a modest flat in Manila.
Students visit the 30-seater dining room of the Marcos family.
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