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Mercado Mansion. / 10.1045111°N 123.6413917°E / 10.1045111; 123.6413917. The Mercado Mansion is a heritage house located in Carcar, Cebu, Philippines. It is a two-storey bahay-na-bato painted Mediterranean blue owned by the Mercado clan along Cebu South Road. [1] It was declared a Heritage House by the National Historical Commission ...
Ancestral houses of the Philippines. Ancestral houses of the Philippines or Heritage Houses are homes owned and preserved by the same family for several generations as part of the Filipino family culture. [1] It corresponds to long tradition by Filipino people of giving reverence for ancestors and elders. Houses could be a simple house to a ...
Notes. [6] Cebu Air, Inc. ( PSE : CEB ), operating as Cebu Pacific (stylized in lowercase ), is a Philippine low-cost airline based at Pasay in Metro Manila. Founded in 1988, [2] it is Asia's first low-cost airline and the Philippines' largest leading airline. [7] [8] [9] It offers scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations.
The bahay kubo, kubo, or payag (in the Visayan languages) is a type of stilt house indigenous to the Philippines. [1] [2] It often serves as an icon of Philippine culture. [3] The house is exclusive to the lowland population of unified Spanish conquered territories. Its design heavily influenced the Spanish colonial-era bahay na bato architecture.
The Señor Santo Niño de Cebú is a Catholic title of the Child Jesus associated with a religious image of the Christ Child [1] widely venerated as miraculous by Filipino Catholics. [2] [3] It is the oldest Christian artifact in the Philippines, [4] originally a gift from the Conquistador Ferdinand Magellan to Rajah Humabon (baptized as Carlos ...
Bahay na bato ( Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as balay na bato or balay nga bato and in Spanish as casa Filipino,[dubious – discuss] is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It is an updated version of the traditional bahay kubo of the Christianized lowlanders ...
National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu ( Cebuano: Nasudnong Museyo sa Pilipinas – Sugbo; Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas – Cebu) is a museum in Cebu City, Philippines under the National Museum of the Philippines system. Hosted at the Aduana (Customs) building, the museum building was known as Malacañang sa Sugbo (English ...
The lighthouse tower stands at a height of 172 feet (52 m) in an uphill area overlooking the Mactan Channel. It sits on an elevated 5,000-square-metre (54,000 sq ft) government property. With a focal plane of 146 feet (45 m), [2] the third-order flashing light was first lit on 1 April 1905. [3] The present octagonal tower is all masonry and ...