[ 8 Comments ] Posted on 08.29.08 under Heritage, Nature, Environment, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan Muscavado Sugar Mill Ruins. These are three snapshots of what I have been told is a Muscavado sugar mill in Barangay Namocan, Tigbauan, Iloilo. It located on a Barangay road which leaves the National Highway near the Sol y Mar Resort and comes out at the Tigbauan-Leon highway near the Tigbauan High School. I’m [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.28.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan, Iloilo history and heritage. Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa was a key figure in Tigbauan’s history, a Spanish “conquistador” who was awarded huge land holdings called encomiendas, for his services to the Spanish governors of the Philippines. One of these included Tigbauan De Figueroa was born of Portuguese parents in North Africa. Eventually he made his [...]
[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 08.26.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan history, architecture, heritage. In the larger Philippine cities history has mostly been obliterated, but places like Tigbauan still retain a distinct and important historic integrity.
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 08.24.08 under Iloilo City, Nature, Environment, Tigbauan, Iloilo, Where to Stay?
If you’d like visit Iloilo City but would like to stay at a beach resort rather than a hotel in Iloilo City, here are some good options
[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 08.22.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan history and heritage. While the Augustinian order was assigned general responsibility for Panay and Tigbauan in the 16th century, Rodriguez de Figueroa requested Jesuit, not Augustinian missionaries to minister to the residents of his extensive land holdings in Panay. His holdings were an “encomienda”, a grant from the Spanish crown. De Figueroa had the [...]
[ 14 Comments ] Posted on 08.12.08 under Iloilo Real Estate, Our House Project, Perspectives, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Our new home in Tigbauan, Iloilo where we’ve learned a whole new meaning for “small town” and “rural”.