Mandaue heritage plaza welcomes visitors
The heritage plaza of Mandaue City will be converted into a museum during the “Gabii sa Kabilin” today from 6 p.m. to midnight.
The heritage plaza of Mandaue City will be converted into a museum during the “Gabii sa Kabilin” today from 6 p.m. to midnight.
A 99-year-old building in downtown Cebu City has just been given another lease on life. A year after Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama condemned the Gotiaoco Building, the city council declared it as a historical landmark.
The not-so-historic town of San Pedro in Laguna hopes to lure tourists and history buffs with the rise of an orchard and a museum devoted to former Vice President Salvador “Doy” Laurel.
A bucolic town north of Laoag City, Bacarra, has been largely ignored by tourists on their way to to the more popular attractions in the province’s northern section because its town center is out of the usual road map.
THE recent robbery at the Fort San Pedro Museum may affect tourism in the 16th century historical landmark.
Curators and employees of the National Museum have pointed to their top two executives as the ones to blame for the decay of the clothes and shoe collection of former First Lady Imelda Marcos.
The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight Friday, making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles where it will retire near its birthplace.
A visit to a museum has convinced Jessa Parreño to pursue a career in broadcast journalism once she completes a mass communication degree at the University of the Philippines College Cebu.
The celebration of Independence Day on Tuesday took a deeper meaning than a no-work, no-class holiday for Arnel Garcia, a sophomore accounting student of the University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF) in Cebu City.
From dusk to midnight, Cebu’s museums and rich cultural heritage were enjoyed by Cebuanos and tourists for the sixth run of the Gabii sa Kabilin (Night of Heritage).
WHILE weighing her options in Congress, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia found an ally in Sen. Loren Legarda, who supported her bid for the Senate yesterday.
Rosita, you should start collecting Cebu’s cultural artifacts. You should do it before the Manila collectors come in droves and haul all of what should be a Cebuano patrimony back to Manila.” With this admonition from her friend Maria Teresa “Bing” Escoda-Roxas, she began collecting at a time when no one cared.
The Visayan Electric Company (Veco) turned over the newly rewired Cebu Cathedral museum to the Archdiocesan Commission for the Cultural Heritage led by its chairman Msgr. Carlito Pono on April 12.
