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Poverty incidence of Tayabas 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 2006 12.40 2009 10.48 2012 9.55 2015 8.75 2018 6.26 2021 12.88 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The major agricultural products of Tayabas are rice and coconut. It is also known for sweet delicacies, budin (cassava cake) and lambanog. Notable Places of Interest Tayabas is rich in history as it was the capital of Tayabas Province (Now in ...
Magellan's Cross Pavilion is a stone kiosk in Cebu City, Philippines.The structure is situated on Plaza Sugbo beside the Basilica del Santo Niño. [1] It houses a Christian cross that was planted by explorers of the Spanish expedition of the first circumnavigation of the world, led by Ferdinand Magellan, upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521.
Articles relating to stone crosses. They are typically Christian monuments, almost always hewn from a single block of stone, usually granite , sandstone , limestone or basalt . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stone crosses .
Stone crosses (German: Steinkreuze) in Central Europe are usually bulky Christian monuments, some 80–120 cm (31–47 in) high and 40–60 cm (16–24 in) wide, that were almost always hewn from a single block of stone, usually granite, sandstone, limestone or basalt. They are amongst the oldest open-air monuments.
Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, 9th or 10th century A simpler example, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland. A high cross or standing cross (Irish: cros ard / ardchros, [1] Scottish Gaelic: crois àrd / àrd-chrois, Welsh: croes uchel / croes eglwysig) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated.
El Fraile Island or Fort Drum, also known as "the concrete battleship," is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. The reinforced concrete fortress shaped like a battleship was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the harbor defenses at the wider South Channel ...
The stone arch bridge has a total length of 445 ft (136 m). The first arch has both height and width of 36 ft (11 m); the second arch also has a height and width of 33 ft (10 m); the fourth arch has a width of 30 ft (9.1 m) and the fifth arch has a width of 18 ft (5.5 m). [2]