West Central Iloilo

Kahilwayan is a cultural festival in a dance-drama from which showcases the events that led to the historic uprising of the Ilonggos against Spain to its ultimate cry of victory and freedom known to us now as the Cry of Santa Barbara. Tribu Kahilwayan

Lambunao was once a visita of Duenas, the town finally became an independent parish in 1753. Constructed in 1880 and finished 10 years later, Lambuano church is a beautiful example of Neoclassic Architecture with Baroque and Roman essentials. The Facad

The Mariit Conservation Park located in Brgy. Jayubo, Lambunao is the largest Hornbill Breeding Facility in the world. In its care are two critically endangered hornbill species: Dolongan (Visayan Writhe Hornbill) and Panay Tariktik Hornbill. The conse

The Yamato International School is a private school located in the town of Lambunao. It is a 10-min ride from Lambunao’s town proper and could be reached by hiring a tricycle in the public market area, if one does not know the way. The school sits rega

The age-old Iloilo Airport in Mandurriao District is scheduled to be replaced by a bigger and better facility located in Santa Barbara on March 2007. Let’s take a look at the performance of the Iloilo Domestic Airport to see if current trends are able

The Santa Barbara Golf Course is the oldest existing golf course in South East Asia. Built in 1907 by a group of Scots, English and American expatriates, who were working in the Panay Railways. The Sta. Barbara Golf Course started as a 9 hole golf cour

The Iloilo Golf Course andf Country Club is the oldest golf course in South East Asia. It all began in the 1850s when the British, led by Iloilo-based Vice Consul Nicholas Loney – – known today as the “Father of the Philippine Sugar Industry” – – began

The city of Iloilo in the Philippines boast what is being called the islands first world-class mass housing community outside of Manila. It is called Providence Iloilo. The residential plaza in Iloilo was designed by Ildefonso Santos, ASLA, considered

The Santa Barbara Centennial Museum and Information Center (left) is located beside the Santa Barbara Municipal Hall and the Santa Barbara Church.

Found in the northwestern entrance of the plaza of Santa Barbara and facing the municipal building stands the statue in bronze of the town’s most distinguished son, Gen. Martin T. Delgado. He is the foremost hero of the revolution against Spain in the

The town plaza with its beautiful landscape and the Municipal Bandstand, constructed in 1925, it has served as a stage for band and musicians, political rallies, religious program as well as cultural shows and contests since American era.

The old structure of the Janiuay Church, destroyed during World War II. It was built between 1830 to 1871. The ruins of the old church of Janiuay is located right beside its new church. Judging from what is left, the Janiuay Church was built as a Neocl

Providence-Iloilo boasts of the only, and perhaps the Philippines’ first, world-class mass housing community outside of Mega Manila. Situated in the vicinity of Barangay Balabag, Pavia, Metro Iloilo, it will become the center of a New Urbanism, a desig

Built of gray stone, the Cabatuan cemetery was built by Fr. Juan Porras and was blessed on 4 February 1894. It is the only extant Spanish cemetery in the Philippines that is a perfect square. It is enclosed on all four sides by a solid limestone base w