SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #13 Pasuquin (Ilocos Norte)

 "I usually go to Pasuquin for its delicious biscocho. Now i had added  the tree-hugged Old Watchtower of Puyupuyan on my must-visit list"

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #12 Bacarra (Ilocos Norte)

"I stood there for a while and saw the near and the far. The sea towards the west, the distant mountains in the east, the fields and the people passing by the road below"

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #10 Badoc (Ilocos Norte)

"Existing for more than a hundred years, this structure is now adopted by the villagers to serve as a reminder of things that had happened in the past as well as a viewing deck at the heart of the village"

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #8 San Esteban (Ilocos Sur)

"I got a feeling that the barangay was named after the energy giving cells called Batteries which we call it in Ilocano as BATERIA. Funny, even the watchtowers' shapes are like batteries. Just a silly thought." 

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #7 Narvacan (Ilocos Sur)

"The Spaniards had left a legacy of seaside Watchtowers in our country and one of the many Watchtowers in the Ilocos Region is this brick-laid at Barangay Sulvec"

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #6 Santiago (Ilocos Sur)

"It was here where they kept an eye on enemies from the seas entering the Sabangan Cove"

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SPANISH WATCHTOWERS #1&2 San Fernando City and San Juan (La Union)

 

"Strategically located at the shores of the west Philippine sea, these structures served as posts to guard the shores from intruders during the Spanish period.
Inspired, I went to see them and did some on-site sketching"

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MANUEL E. ARGUILLA Ancestral house

"I never knew what it was until I, myself looked at it firsthand"

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DANAC BURIAL CAVE

"Great things come unexpected. This is definitely one of my favourite summer hike of 2013"

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PINDANGAN RUINS

"I'm a fan for bricks and stones structures. It is something that blends with the environment. Unfortunately, the old structures are the ones that made use of brick and stone. Some of them are either on the brink of crumbling or now in ruins"

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La Union Century old TUNNEL

"A structure abondoned"

 -pagnapagna