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Stamps featuring Marikina, the Shoe Capital of the Philippines

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a stamp to promote Marikina, the Shoe Capital of the Philippines, as a "must see" tourist destination in the country.

Trivias about Marikina, the Shoe Capital of the Philippines

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The City of Marikina, dubbed as the country's shoemaking capital, aims for world attention as ten craftsmen from the Marikina Colossal Footwear Foundation create what would be the world's biggest pair of shoes in an attempt to break into the Guiness Book of World Records. The shoes when completed would be 5.5 meters long, 2.0 meters wide, and 1.98 meters high. Fifteen persons can fit into one shoe. The record-breaking pair should fit someone who is 125 feet tall. The shoes cost 1.5 million pesos and have about 200,000 stitches using 1,000 meters of thread.