Negros Occidental

L’Fisher Hotel in Bacolod: An Elegant Old-World Accommodation in the City

Staying at L’Fisher is like staying at a quaint old mansion.

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Negros Occidental

Bacolod

Hotel

Cool Down: 5 Coolest Cities in the Philippines

Here's a list of five places where you can cool off for the summer.

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Baguio

Cavite

Negros Occidental

South Cotabato

Tagaytay

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Balay Negrense

As one of the preserved ancestral houses in Silay, Balay Negrense shows tourists and locals alike how wealthy lifestyle was back then at the turn of the 20th century.   BALAY NEGRENSE. A well-known house-of-stone in Negros that showcases the 19th century lifestyle. (Photo grabbed from http://gonegros.com/balay-negrense/)   Balay Negrense is an ancestral house-turned museum found in the province of Negros Occidental in Visayas that has become a popular historical tourist spot. In Hiligaynon, “Balay” means house and “Negrense” means people from Negros. Balay Negrense is a century-old house owned by Victor Fernandez Gaston, who is the eldest son of wealthy sugar baron Yves Leopold Germain Gaston. It is known […]

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Negros Occidental

Museum & Art Gallery

Balay Negrense in Silay City

The Balay Negrense, also known as the Victor Gaston Ancestral House, is an antiques museum in Silay City that showcases the lifestyle of a late 19th-century Negrense sugar baron. – Balay Negrense exterior – In the 1890s, Don Victor Fernandez Gaston, a sugar baron whose family revolutionized the sugar-planting techniques in Negros, commissioned the construction of Balay Negrense for himself and his twelve children. Upon its completion in 1901, the Gaston house was one of the largest homes on the island. After Don Gaston’s death in 1927 the house eventually passed to his children, and was later vacated to fall into disrepair. Eventually the remaining heirs of the Gaston family […]

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Negros Occidental

Museum & Art Gallery

The Ruins at Bacolod Province

Ancestral homes are not at all hard to come by in Bacolod Province, but the most famous of them all is The Ruins in Talisay City. The iconic ruin of this once-grand mansion, regarded by many as the Taj Mahal of Negros, is easily recognizable – a huge majestic structure set in the midst of a vast sugar plantation. Visiting The Ruins takes patience, as it is quite remote and located off the main road. But its grandeur is still evident the moment you enter the gates of the lovely nine-hundred-square-meter property. The mansion was built in the early 1900’s by a Spanish-Filipino sugar baron named Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson, […]

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Negros Occidental

Bacolod

Historical landmark