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 City Hall. The original government building.
Baguio City Hall to become a museum? It's already recognized as a heritage building and part of the Creative Cities Network of UNESCO. If plans push through, it will showcase local masterpieces and crafts... ... and our local servants in action. Yeah, right.
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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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The Baguio Longanisa Story.
Longanisa is actually a common breakfast fare all over our country but tourists and even locals found our version better. Or is it really? No idea but in every Panagbenga (except this year, of course), long lines can be seen in our homegrown longanisa vendors.