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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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Good Taste. Baguio peeps take-out favorite.

Do you know where most Baguio folks eat and buy take-outs? This dining mecca was already serving budget meals even before it was in Jollibee's figment of imagination. Oh, have you ever seen a 'dumbwaiter'? Go there and meet him.

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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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