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4
Nov
2007
//November 4, 2007
A Light Up North

A Light Up North

By admin on November 4, 2007 in Features Heritage Nook Photos Stories Trivia with No Comments

In the northern municipality of Liloan, an old but beautiful lighthouse stands. Called the Bagacay Point Light (named after its home, the Bagacay sub-village), it towers to a height of 72 feet in an uphill area, overlooking the Mactan Channel. A narrative by Paul Perez at the website waypoint.ph states that “it sits on an [...]

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7
Oct
2007
//October 7, 2007
Classical Edifice for Commerce

Classical Edifice for Commerce

By admin on October 7, 2007 in Heritage Nook History with No Comments

The Prudential Bank and Trust Company building stands behind the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, at the corner of D. Jakosalem and Magallanes Sts. It was built in the early 1900’s in the middle of what was still the city’s main business district. A vintage photo from the Internet showed the building occupied by Singer [...]

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2
Sep
2007
//September 2, 2007
The Queen City’s Seat of Power

The Queen City’s Seat of Power

By admin on September 2, 2007 in Heritage Nook with No Comments

Built in 1948, the Cebu City Hall building is still the administrative center of the Queen City of the South. It has three storeys and is made of concrete. This 18-meter high building was one of the structures built by the Americans as part of reclamation activities on Cebu’s shorelines. Its design is characteristic of [...]

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5
Aug
2007
//August 5, 2007
A nuns’ convent

A nuns’ convent

By admin on August 5, 2007 in Features Heritage Nook History Reviews with No Comments

THE Metropolitan Cathedral Convent is a product of a typical construction from the Spanish Colonial period, that of the bahay na bato. The two-storey building, which stands just beside the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, is made of limestone (for its walls on the ground floor) and timber (for the second floor). Originally, the convent was home [...]

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2
Jul
2007
//July 2, 2007
Cebu’s Own Palace

Cebu’s Own Palace

By admin on July 2, 2007 in Heritage Nook with No Comments

WHAT we now call as the “Malacanang sa Sugbu” was actually a former Bureau of Customs office. This was built during the time when the Americans colonized our country. This was also a time when efforts were made in coming up with a development for a new port here. Adorned with classical ornamentations, the building [...]

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