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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Tha Mansion. Summer palace of the Guv'nor.
The Mansion was built at the "insistence" of then Governor-General William Cameron Forbes so he could have a cool mountain retreat from the hot Manila weather. He even named it after his summer cottage in New England. Spoiled guy.
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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 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.