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Tag: Ferdinand Magellan

Tourism awards, here and there

I always consider it a big boost to our industry every time I hear of any of our tourism enterprises garnering prestigious awards from...

Magellan’s destination

Of all the regions in the country, I think Visayas can boast of being the only one with a history which intertwines with that...

The reality of being China’s neighbor

"If the Philippines goes to war against China, history will only repeat itself."   The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan began his historic voyage to the Pacific...

Smugglers of the faith

"Pope Francis refers to Filipino migrant workers."     Last Sunday, March 14, Pope Francis celebrated mass at the St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City to commemorate...

1521: The quincentennial

"These words by Raisa Mabayo should make the storytellers pause."   Next year, on March 16, 2021 to be exact, we will be commemorating the 500th...

Arnis, Pinoy martial art, evokes Magellan’s nemesis

To the untrained eye, arnis—the stick-wielding martial art of the Philippines—is brutal and frenzied, but behind the chaos lies a tradition dating back hundreds...

Hidden Spanish relic gets reboot

Vaulted ceilings and rows of stone columns stretch into the humid darkness deep below the Philippine capital, where workers are transforming a more-than-century-old underground...

Magellan’s epic voyage

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first...

Philippine-Spanish ties have come full circle

When Rajah Humabon and Ferdinand Magellan met and exchanged Filipino goods for Spanish goods, little did they realize that the relationship between the Philippine...

ARMM Celebrates its 27th year

It boggles the mind now that this concept was once deemed unviable and merely a pipe dream for the Muslims of Mindanao. But it’s...
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