[ No Comments ] Posted on 10.13.09 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan Church – San Juan Sahagun Parish: history architecture and photos. Montessori School of Tigbauan
[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.25.09 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
This well-kept memorial is located on the north side of the National Highway before Tigbauan property. It celebrates a raid by Filipino guerrillas against a Japanese truck convoy on September 2, 1942
[ 13 Comments ] Posted on 07.16.09 under Our House Project
How to dig a water well in the Philippines – problems, digging techniques, digging tools, depth, well tiles, cost of digging a water well.
[ No Comments ] Posted on 06.04.09 under Tigbauan, Iloilo
Queen of Heaven Mission School, Allera St., 5021 Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines. Phone 63-33-511-7692 This year (2009) we’re sending our niece to Queen of Heaven Mission School, a private school in Tigbauan, Iloilo. She’s in the first year of high school. We’ll post some photos and feedback as the year progresses. Tuition is P1,100 per month. We [...]
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 05.18.09 under Business Perspectives, Villa de Arevalo, Iloilo
NEW RS2 Asian HQ in Tigbauan RS2 Software last week inaugurated its new premises in the Philippines, during a reception attended by various key officials. The new premises, situated in the municipality of Tigbauan, Iloilo, will serve as the company’s base in Asia. RS2 is currently carrying out various marketing initiatives in the region. RS2 Software [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 05.03.09 under Shopping, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Emergency lighting. A couple a months ago we moved from Iloilo City to Tigbauan, Iloilo. That gave us a new electric power supplier. In Iloilo City we had “PECO” – Panay Electric. In Tigbauan we have “ILECO”. ILECO has proved to be far less reliable and that’s not to say that PECO was so great. [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.22.09 under Iloilo Real Estate, Tigbauan, Iloilo
5.28 hectares of exceptionally beautiful rural land in Barangay Namocan, Tigbauan, Iloilo at P1,000 per square meter. Beautiful mountain views. Internet access via SmartBro. Walking distance to plaza, market, high school. Convenient to Iloilo City shopping (SM City, Robinson’s), dining, medical care via National highway. For further information contact Mr. Hector Zayco, +63-33-511-8288, Mobile: 0919-891-4555. [...]
[ 29 Comments ] Posted on 01.18.09 under Our House Project
Detailed description of building a hollow block (concrete block) perimeter wall in the Philippines – supervision, hiring workers, buying materials, problems and successes.
[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 01.09.09 under Our House Project, Tigbauan, Iloilo
All about Internet service options in Tigbauan, Iloio and on the “SmartBro” wireless Internet available from Smart Telecom.
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 12.23.08 under Tigbauan, Iloilo
Fresh Pasteurized milk and milk products are produced at this plant in Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines
[ 16 Comments ] Posted on 10.20.08 under Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan – snapshots, history, resorts, education, markets
[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 08.30.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan, Iloilo history, heritage, architecture. Unquestionably there have been many changes to this old Spanish church over the decades and centuries. One major change, the concrete belltowers seem to rest on a massive concrete structure, plastered and finished to mimic stone blocks. But, if you look closely behind the concrete bell tower supporting structure, one [...]
[ 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 [...]