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Bagasbas Beach, Daet, Camarines Norte Though it looks as if the fisherfolk of Bagasbas in Daet, Camarines Norte are practicing social distancing, this “blocking” has been the practice here for many years. Fishnets would have been laid from shore to the deeper sea at midnight. As the skies lighten in the morning, the nets — … Read more

Zamora House (Calle R. Hidalgo) Located in front of the Paterno House, the immense Zamora House forms part of the only surviving cluster of heritage houses along with the once-grand Calle Hidalgo. The house was home to Manuel A. Zamora, a chemist and pharmacist who invented the tiki-tiki formula to combat beriberi, a severe and … Read more

Paterno Ancestral House (Calle R. Hidalgo) Calle Hidalgo was home to the elite of Old Manila during the 19th and early 20th centuries. A notable feature of several grand houses along Calle Hidalgo (formerly Calle San Sebastian) are the colonnades that line the street. One surviving example is the Paterno House, which dates from the … Read more

Ambos Camarines is a defunct historical province in the northern end of the Bicol Peninsula. It was established in 1579 with Nueva Caceres (now Naga City) as its capital. In the last decades of Spanish colonialization, the province underwent a series of confusing geopolitical divisions, fusion, re-division, and re-fusion, until 10 March 1917 when Ambos … Read more

Another historic house in Malolos is the 19th-century Don Jose Bautista Ancestral House, which served as the office of the Secretaria de Fomento during the First Philippine Republic. It frequently hosted Manila-based visitors, including Jose Rizal in 1892. This ancestral house was built in 1855 by one of the prominent Filipino-Chinese families in Malolos. It … Read more