Here’s one list the country would be proud to be on for a change. The Department of Foreign Affairs is calling on Filipinos worldwide to vote for the heritage city of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, in the New7Wonders Cities campaign, a global competition initiated by Swiss nonprofit New7Wonders Foundation.
Four years after the Historic City of Vigan was cited by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
“‘Raniag’ in the Ilocano language means ‘brightens,’ or to stretch it, may mean ‘light,’” a knowledgeable Ilocano friend says. As...
The Quirino clan converged in the historic city of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, on July 21-24, for their first hometown reunion. Coming from as far as the United States, Bahrain and Belgium, the 120-strong contingent of third- to sixth-generation descendants of the patriarch Mariano boarded two buses and a dozen cars and vans early in the morning of July 21 to begin a journey of 400 km.
I will always be grateful to Archbishop Emeritus Diosdado Talamayan for inviting Barge Ramos and myself in 1993 to visit Piat. The church was small and Our Lady of the Visitation of Piat was easy to reach on her altar.
The city of Vigan is getting its second wind but it is still in danger of being knocked out of the search for the Top 7 cities in the world, according to campaign organizer New7Wonders Foundation.
The International Conference on Cultural Tourism of the International Council for Monuments and Sites (Icomos) will be held in the City of Vigan, Philippines, Nov. 7-8.
This column welcomes the appointment of Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, OMI, of South Cotabato as the Philippines’ newest cardinal. He is the first Ilocano cardinal, having hailed from Sarrat, Ilocos Norte.
As we Filipinos go about our daily lives, we are often blissfully unaware that the streets we navigate had been the sites of massive devastation about seven decades ago, during the Second World War.
Twenty Miss Universe candidates visited the UNESCO heritage city of Vigan in Ilocos Sur on Monday and graced a fashion show wearing traditional Filipino terno.
