Bonbon Eco-Cultural Festival Hosted by Tanauan City 26-27 May 2017
Batangueños and non-Batangueños alike are invited to attend the third annual Bonbon Festival, an eco-cultural event that aims to provide ...Read More
Showing posts with label Batangas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Batangas. Show all posts
Is Santo Tomas to Become Batangas’ Fourth City? Revisiting Ralph Recto’s Senate Bill 3025
Along Maharlika Highway, Santo Tomas, Batangas. Image credit: Google Street View. Santo Tomas is Batangas’ northernmost municipality, t...Read More
Eight Batangas-Themed Movies on IMDB
When one considers how colorful the history of Batangas has been, and how colorful life in the province continues to be up to the present...Read More
Batangas Port, Fernando Air Base Expansion, Batangas-Calamba Rail Proposed
Image credit: Google Street View. A TV Patrol Southern Tagalog item on its 9 August 2016 show reported that talks have started between ...Read More
Taal: Extolling the Virtues of the Neighbourhood Heritage Town (Video Log Embedded)
Taal seen from the tower of the St. Martin de Tours Basilica. Vigan or Taal? I had a bit of a discussion about this with my former stud...Read More
Archbishop’s Communique Explains Why the Vatican Has Reversed Decree Declaring Lipa Apparitions Supernatural
Image of Mary Mediatrix of all Grace at the Carmelite Convent in Lipa City. In a communique dated 31 May 2016, Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arg...Read More
The Story Behind the Sinking of the Galleon San Diego Off Nasugbu’s Fortune Island
By Unknown - Illustration from Peregrinationes" from Théodore de Bry, 1603 (copy in Boston Public Library). Wikimedia Commons . “Th...Read More
The Girls from Batangas in the UAAP Women’s Volleyball Finals
The deciding match of the UAAP Season 78 women’s volleyball final was dominated by one Kim Kianna Dy from De La Salle Zobel in Alabang, who...Read More
Finding Ferdinand: the Search for the Irish Ancestor of the Mayo Clan of Lipa
Image credit: It's Xiaotime! After I posted my previous article about the escapades of the British army in Batangas in the 18 th ...Read More
British Troops Chase after Treasures in 18th Century Batangas
Image credit: Ayala Museum. Most Filipinos are vaguely aware from high school History lessons that for a brief period in our nation’s s...Read More
Bus Travel to, from and Around Batangas, Then and Now
Manila bound BLTBCo, circa 1962. Image credit: History of Batangas on FB, c/o Jigger Gilera, MD. These days, one can travel to Metro M...Read More
Taal Volcano: Lying in Wait like a Booby-Trapped Postcard
Taal Volcano always looks picture-perfect, but has a violent past. It is always easy when one drives along the Tagaytay Ridge to simply ...Read More
Hypotheses on the Difference in Accents between Eastern and Western Batangas
Taal, like Balayan, used to be a capital of Batangas. When the Filipino actor Leo Martinez started gaining a bit of fame on Philippine ...Read More
The Nasugbu Landing in WWII and Its Significance to the Liberation of Batangas
Image credit: Wayne Violette. American troops marching into Nasugbu town after the beach landing. Among the wartime stories that I use...Read More
When Passenger Train Service Ran from Calamba to Batangas City
Image credit: Batangas Railways. Posted by user Pinai on the Indonesia v the Philippines discussion board on www.city-data.com . When...Read More
When 25,000 Batangueños were Massacred by the Japanese in World War II
The Japanese Army on its way to Manila. Image credit: Wikipedia. [Warning: This article contains graphic images.] My late mother wa...Read More
Batangas Schools Rankings in Licensure Results by Course
Up until the nineties, if a family could afford it, the first consideration when a child was graduating from high school was always which s...Read More
The Ten Oldest Higher Education Institutions in Batangas
Image credit: My Crazy Internet Marketing Expedition . Why not just do an unqualified list of all schools in the province, you may be ...Read More
The Forgotten Military Airfield in Batangas City
Image credit: War in Air, Defenders of the Philippines. My late father used to be a pilot in the Philippine Air Force. Naturally, I a...Read More
Original Locations of Batangas Towns and Cities and How They Changed
Image credit: Google Earth. Click to enlarge. This article shows where the cities of Lipa and Tanauan along with the Municipalities of...Read More
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