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In Quezon province, Danny Galera Maffiotte de Luna, president of Quezon Province Heritage Council Inc., clarified that the Don Natalio Enriquez Mansion in Sariaya town will not be demolished because of a road-widening project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
I’m not really a boxing fan but today, like almost every other Pinoy, I’m watching the latest Pacquiao fight. The hubby and our boys have dragged me to the big screen at the Alpha Tents in Alphaland Southgate Mall in Makati, where, like every other mall in the country, the fight is being shown live.
Just 25 minutes away from Manila by plane is the island paradise of Balesin, Quezon, a 500-ha private membership resort.
On my last trip to Balesin Island Club, the Lamon Bay resort in Quezon province inaugurated Toscana. It’s the seventh and last village of the resort. Others are Balesin, Phuket, Bali, Costa del Sol, St. Tropez and Mykonos.
Like our indigenous fabrics and oral chants and literature, Filipino cuisine is a cultural heritage that needs protection and preservation.
The more than three hours travel time to Lucena, capital city of Quezon province, is best done in a relaxed vertical position. Sleep is your friend as you pass roads and bridges traversing Sariaya, Quezon, or through San Pablo and Liliw, Laguna, and Lucban, Quezon.
IF YOU’RE familiar with Manuel L. Quezon in his official photographs, wait till you see him in his youth, particularly those images younger than that on the P20 bill.
Eriberto Ricardo J. Dedace has an endless passion to learn the history of his native town of Sariaya in Quezon province and to protect its legacies in ways he describes as “fulfilling and lots of fun.”
Walking through the pathway going toward San Pablo, Laguna’s Lake Pandin, our guide pointed to the sparse coconut trees around us. He blamed the coco lumber business for the decreasing number of trees in a province otherwise known as coconut country. With a sigh, he added that absentee landlords don’t seem to care at all.
The virtues of the coconut, the tree of life, were celebrated in Quezon province’s Niyogyugan Festival. Now on its fifth...
