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BATAAN | Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar Day Tour in Bagac, Bataan

RJ AbelleraMay 27, 2016July 3, 2024720 mins

Houses from different parts of the Philippines; some were restored, some were replicated. This is the only description I know about the first heritage resort in the Philippines, Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, located in a peninsular province of Luzon, in Bataan. When drafting my weekend itinerary, I made sure that this should be included…

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL | Pink House, Brown House, Guapple Pie: Preserved History of Silay City

RJ AbelleraJanuary 12, 2014July 3, 202409 mins

When I visited Vigan a year ago, I wasn’t that wowed by the ancestral houses flanked on Calle Crisologo maybe because I grew up having my grandma’s house just adjacent to our home. However, a different feeling tickled me when I had a short walking tour around the streets of Silay City where heritage houses…