More articles about: heritage

In one of his letters, the English poet John Keats asked, "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"So physically removed from the pains and troubles of ...

Most of us, perhaps unknowingly, catch a glimpse of New Manila from the window of LRT-2 as it passes by Gilmore Station. Then teasers of it until the next two, when we hear the catchy announcement of "Paparating na sa Betty- ...

The Metro Manila Subway is about "40 percent" done, but right of way issues are complicating the ambitious project. According to Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime Bautista, several homeowners are opposed to the subway's alignment. The project's route will ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has just included another Philippine city in its Creative Cities Network. Now recognized as a Creative City for Gastronomy, Iloilo City joins a list of 55 others as the group celebrated its World ...

Quezon City is steeped in history, but often it takes a keen eye-not to mention a steadfast hand-to identify important landmarks so people are aware and can pay proper tribute to them. For the first time, some of the most ...

Filipinos have long been acquainted with artillery even before the rule of colonial powers. If we were to go through the Taosug tarsilas, we can surmise that firearms had already been available in Sulu as early as the late 14th century. Spanish ...

The Greenbelt 1 building in Makati City may soon lose protection as a cultural property. Ayala Land has filed a petition with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts to remove the Presumption as Important Cultural Property, as announced by the ...

Beyond adobo and sinigang, Philippine heritage cuisine is largely overlooked and neglected. This is evident in the lack of knowledge of many Filipinos about their local ingredients, many of which are alien to them. Lokalpedia features overlooked, endangered, underutilized, artisanal, heirloom, and ...

We've all heard it before, a historical site is in danger of being torn down to make way for new developments in the area. We've seen it happen to the 1930s Capitol Theater, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati, the ...

The Holy Rosary Parish Church, aka Angeles Church, is a towering landmark in the center of Angeles City in Pampanga. It has been declared a National Historical Landmark by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NCHP) and is recognized as an ...

There are as many versions of adobo as there are cooks, but if you're looking to level up your adobo game, here's a tip from a true expert. Eighty-one-year-old Lillian Borromeo-or Atching Lillian to her family, ...

If you've ever tasted Ifugao rice, consider yourself lucky. Not a lot of Filipinos get to have the same experience-it is produced in small quantities, and is not available to a lot of places in the country. This heritage food ...

Prehistoric inhabitants of the Philippines have been drawing on cave walls 1,500 years before Christ was born. The cave drawings were discovered in Peñablanca town, Cagayan, and have just been confirmed to be 3,500 years old-making them the ...