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Happy New Year 2023 Philippines!

Here are some of the first moments of the New Year and how they were celebrated across the globe

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Published at 2022-12-29 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Entertainment, People, Recreation

Tags: Fireworks, Rizal

DENR Suspends Quarrying, Crushing Plant Permits of 11 Firms in Rizal

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has suspended the quarrying and crushing plant permits of 11 companies in Rizal. During the hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change on Thursday, DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu enumerated the firms whose Mineral Production Sharing Agreements (MPSA) have been suspended.

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Published at 2020-12-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Environment, Legal

Tags: Marikina, Rizal, environment, mining, river

Portrait of the Philippines: 500 Years Without Love

Five Hundred Years Without Love is the thought-provoking title of a new book launched on National Heroes Day, by bestselling author Alex Lacson.

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Published at 2020-09-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, History, Stories

Tags: Filipino, Rizal, country, government, love, story

Inside the Walled City of Intramuros

From when the city was founded in 1571 until the end of the Spanish rule in 1898, Intramuros was Manila. The name Intramuros means “inside the wall.” For 400 years, Intramuros served as the center of the Spanish occupation, originally built to be the residence for Spanish government officials and their families. It was where the most influential and wealthy citizens of colonial Manila lived. The natives and Chinese were not allowed to live inside Intramuros, only the Spanish elite and mestizos.

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Published at 2018-08-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, History

Tags: Cathedral, Church, History, Intramuros, Manila, Museums, Rizal, Spanish, colonial

The New Natural History Museum of the Philippines

These are handsome representatives of the Commonwealth style ushered in by American architects Daniel Burnham and William Parsons and brought into fruition by top Filipino architects such as Juan Arellano and Antonio Toledo. Devastated by the Second World War, they were painstakingly reconstructed, and they served as government buildings in the first decades of the Third Philippine Republic.

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Published at 2018-08-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Fauna and flora, History, Leisure

Tags: History, Museums, National, Nature, Rizal

World's 1St Rizal Monument is Stained with Blood, Fortified with A Battlecry

Rizal Monument in Luneta (formerly Bagumbayan) is probably the most popular memorial for the fallen hero and among the most famous sculptural landmarks in the country. It is especially under the spotlight nowadays because of the case against a certain residential building that serves as an unsightly background of the leisure park.

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Published at 2018-03-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, History

Tags: Monument, Rizal

Rizal's "kiss"

The fortnightly broadside magazine of the Philippine Propaganda Movement in Spain “La Solidaridad” was edited by Marcelo H del Pilar, 1889-1892. The magazine was anti-friar, but it carried news about the Philippines, such as some articles on the Spanish Cortes’ deliberations regarding the “Ultramar,” the colonies outside of Spain, e.g., Las Islas Filipinas. It also published political treatises by Ferdinand Blumentritt, Jose Rizal, Mariano Ponce, Graciano Lopez Jaena and others.

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Published at 2018-03-17 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Stories

Tags: Rizal

Some Not Very Well Known Facts about Rizal's Trial and Execution

As we celebrate on 30 December, 2014, the 118th Death Anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, I wonder of how many of us are aware of the following:

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Published at 2018-03-16 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, History

Tags: Facts, Rizal

Five Surprising Facts about the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park

As a famous landmark in the Philippines, Rizal Monument’s history should be revisited because of its historical and cultural significance. It was built to commemorate the Filipino nationalist and the de facto national hero of the Philippines, Jose Rizal. Here are ten interesting facts about this landmark:

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Published at 2018-03-10 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary

Tags: Facts, Landmark, Monument, Rizal

Rodriguez: the Mountainous Town of Rizal (Montalban, Rizal)

Rodriguez is a first-class urban municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. It is the northernmost town in the province and comes after San Mateo, Rizal, and Quezon City coming from Metro Manila. The town is located on the slopes of the Sierra Madre mountain range and features many resorts; it is also the largest town in Rizal province with an area of 312.70 km².

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Published at 2018-03-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, Travel

Tags: Rizal, Town, mountains

Sinauna

The Sinauna are found in Sta. Inez in Rizal and General Nakar in Quezon (CALABARZON Region), and in a few places in Aurora (Central Luzon). Their language has a 73% lexical similarity with Filipino, but it is now highly endangered.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Quezon City, Rizal