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The Kapampangan blacksmith went from making cannons for Rajah Sulayman to becoming the Spanish Army's official cannon maker.
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 ...
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Ayala Land has filed a petition with the NCCA.
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 government agency on July 26. ...
Things growing in your backyard could be ancient culinary ingredients used by our ancestors.
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 local ...
It was built sometime in the 1860s.
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 1940s Carlos Palanca Mansion ...
The church has suffered damage and deterioration through the centuries.
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 ...
Straight from Atching Lillian Borromeo.
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, friends, and followers—has a simple trick ...
If you’ve ever tasted Ifugao rice, consider yourself lucky.
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 is produced by ...
The drawings are older than the Maya Scripts.
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 oldest directly dated rock ...
Funding will protect rare and priceless ethnic stoneware from around the country.
The National Museum of the Philippines has received a grant from the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc. (GBF) to establish the Elizabeth Y. Gokongwei Ethnographic Stoneware Visible Storage and Resource Center at the National Museum of Anthropology.The project will provide Filipinos and experts ...