Parade cum dancefest: Iriga’s red-letter day
By Amadís Ma. Guerrero
In and around the plaza in Iriga City, Camarines Sur, looming under the shadow of Mt. Asog, you will find the heartbeat of the city. Here you will come upon the historical church of St. Anthony of Padua, health and fitness matronas limbering up before the monument of Rizal and the Muse of Literature, behind them an ersatz Statue of Liberty, the Iriga Plaza Hotel, a colonial, “dysfunctional” City Hall, the Emerald Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes above a modern, tube-like Convention Center; a bahay na bato, the Trinidad Building; and a shopping arcade.
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