"To almost complete my visits to all of the remaining Spanish-era Watchtowers of Ilocos Norte, I have to go back to Currimao to see the North Watchtower"
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These are some of the Ilocos Region's old Watchtowers built during the Spanish occupation in the Philippines.
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"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"-pagnapagna
"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"-pagnapagna
" No doubt, this seaside Barangay got its name from the rotund structure that served as a lookout point to incoming marauders during the 17th century. Torre is the name of the Barangay"-pagnapagna
"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"-pagnapagna
"They had done their part and this one had gone away. How ironic, soon it will be forgotten"
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"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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"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"-pagnapagna
"It was here where they kept an eye on enemies from the seas entering the Sabangan Cove"
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"What is this hidden and just peeking behind the high wall?Without any legs and feet, it stood there at a side near a wall.Without eyes, it desires to see the horizon and the vessels of the sea that it had used-to. Without any feelings, lonesome in the companion of some mango trees, i think i heard it cry. Friends or foes cling in betrayal to its fragile and aged body, tearing it apart. Visited by birds and perhaps even spirits from the past that may still linger to its virtual memory and frighten the living. It does not yearn for nobody can hear it longing. A mute and blind witness. It is a sad thing.
...Old and forgotten"
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"While one stands free on pebbled shores and slowly being taken down by the sea, others are forgotten in their antiquity. They have served their purpose and are now part of our history"
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"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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