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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Farmer's Daughter. Ibaloi cuisine.
Ok, you go to Baguio for the cool weather and maybe to discover what the city is all about. And then you get hungry and eat in McDonald's. Something's missing here. Have you ever tried native Baguio cuisine?
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One man against the Americans.
During the American colonial period, there was one person who went against the might of the colonizers. The battle was in their own home front, the US Supreme Court. He won. This is his story.