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Baguio stories

Stories. Short vids about where you can walk around, eat when you're tired and hungry.. and trivias about how the city came to be. This is how our city evolved to what it is today. Stories of people, places and events that made Baguio, well.. Baguio.


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BenCab. Baguio Influential Artist # 1.

BenCab is a famous National Artist that retired in Baguio. During his elementary days, he made a few centavos doing his classmates’ drawing assignments. In high school, he drew portraits of James Dean and Elvis Presley and sold them to schoolmates for 10 pesos. Decades down the way at the peak of his career, his most expensive paintings sold for about a million dollars each. "Paint it and it will come."

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Baguio Cathedral. The pink cathedral

With more than 80 million Catholics, the Philippines has the third-largest Catholic population in the world. No wonder most Baguio tourists flock to this famous pink cathedral. But why pink?

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Tea House. Baguio party kitchen.

Having a party? Baguio folks go straight to Teahouse. Why cook when you can buy it cheap and ready to go. No hassle. Better go there early during weekends and holidays. Long line. Get a number and wait.

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The family that owned Baguio.

Did you know that there is a family of indigenous natives that once owned Baguio? Nope, I don't think they're related to the Villars.

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