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Showing posts with label PHILIPPINES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PHILIPPINES. Show all posts
September 25, 2017

3156 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region) - Feast of the Black Nazarene

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The Black Nazarene is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica ...
April 11, 2016

2453 PHILIPPINES (Cordillera Administrative Region) - Hanging coffins in Sagada

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Sagada is nestled in a valley at the upper end of the Malitep tributary of the Chico River , in the Central Cordillera Mountains, en...
January 14, 2016

2212 PHILIPPINES (CALABARZON) - Maglalatik

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  The Maglalatik is a dance from the Philippines in which coconut shell halves are secured onto the dancers' hands and on vests...
January 8, 2016

2197 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region) - The map of Manila

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Located on the eastern shores of Manila bay , which rests on the western shores of Luzon , the largest island in the Philippines , Mani...
November 23, 2015

2065 PHILIPPINES (Western Visayas) - Dinagyang Festival

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The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City , on  Panay island, which takes place on the fourth Sunday of Janua...
July 21, 2015

1762 PHILIPPINES (Southwestern Tagalog Region) - Pandanggo sa Ilaw dance

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Pandanggo dance evolved from Fandango , a Spanish folk dance, which arrived in the Philippines during the Hispanic period. This dance...
July 11, 2015

1731 PHILIPPINES (Cordillera Administrative Region) - Balangbang Dance of Kankanaey people

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The Kankanaey live in western  Mountain Province , northern Benguet and southeastern Ilocos Sur , and are part of the Filipino indig...
February 25, 2015

1468 PHILIPPINES (Central Visayas) - Fort San Pedro in Cebu

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Front entrance of Fuerte de San Pedro Built in 1565 in the pier area of the Cebu City by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers un...
September 27, 2014

1249 PHILIPPINES (CALABARZON) - Kumintang

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The kumintang is the name given to several distinct styles, techniques and forms in music and dance, probably originating in the areas...
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January 5, 2014

0942 PHILIPPINES (Northern Mindanao) - A Talaandig solemn ritual

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  Mindanao is the most culturally diverse island in the Philippines where people of different languages, tribes and races meet. The...
October 23, 2013

0847 PHILIPPINES (Cordillera Administrative Region) - An Ifugao dance

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Ifugao is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon , covering a mountainous region characterized by rug...
August 9, 2013

0786 PHILIPPINES (Central Visayas) - Chocolate Hills Natural Monument (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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The Chocolate Hills are located in Bohol Province and is a rolling terrain of haycock hills, mounds of a generally conical and almost...
August 3, 2013

0362, 0782 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region / Ilocos Region / Western Visayas) - Baroque Churches of the Philippines (UNESCO WHS)

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0362 Paoay Church Posted on 18.10.2012, 03.08.2013 As I said here with reference to the Philippines , "from Spani...
July 7, 2013

0725 PHILIPPINES (Southwestern Tagalog Region) - Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO WHS)

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The Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef and a Natural Marine Park in Sulu Sea , at 150km southeast of Puerto Princesa City , compris...
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April 9, 2013

0591 PHILIPPINES (Southwestern Tagalog Region) - Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park (UNESCO WHS)

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Located on the northern coast of the island of Palawan , this park offers a spectacular limestone karst landscape, the main attraction ...
March 18, 2013

0562 PHILIPPINES (CALABARZON) - Corregidor

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To get to Manila by sea you have to get inside the Manila Bay , which is guarded by four islands: Corregidor , El Fraile , Caballo an...
May 16, 2012

0209 PHILIPPINES (Cordillera Administrative Region) - Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (UNESCO WHS)

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"For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountains. The fruit of knowledge handed d...
May 11, 2012

0201 PHILIPPINES (Ilocos Region) - Historic Town of Vigan (UNESCO WHS)

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The City of Vigan is located in the delta of the Abra River , off the coastal plain of the South China Sea , close to the north-east t...
April 13, 2012

0170 PHILIPPINES (Central Visayas) - Sinulog Festival

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As I said here , the spaniards left to Filipinos the name and Christianity. If the name not undergone any change, the Christianity (mor...
February 17, 2012

0126 PHILIPPINES - The map and the flag of the country

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Says Wikipedia : "The Philippines has been part of several empires: the Spanish Empire during the age of Imperialism, the United ...