Lipa’s New City Museum in Photos
The city of Lipa has a relatively new museum to showcase its rich heritage from the pre-Hispanic period up to the present. It was opened o...
Miscellaneous
Ferdinand Magellan Did Not Die at the Hands of Lapu-Lapu
[Author's note: Although this is not a Batangas-specific article, its premise should be of interest not only to enthusiasts of Batang...
The Macolod Volcanic Corridor and Volcanism in Batangas Province
Taal Volcano, the last major eruption of which was in January 2020, is but part of a chain of still active Quarternary — in geologic terms...
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[Culture] The Amusing Batangueño Penchant for Swearing
In this mall car accessories shop in Lipa, as customers went around examining the items on the shelves, one of the salespersons tripped an...
The Barely Documented 1885 Taal Volcano Eruption
There is an eruption of Taal Volcano in Batangas that is scantily — if at all — documented. This is the one of 1885, an event that was no...
A Historical Record of English and Tagalog Names for Common Philippine Fishes
From a 1948 publication of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 1 , we obtain this fairly comprehensive list of both English and Tag...
5 Things Batangas Is Known For
Batangas is one of the Republic of the Philippines’ 81 provinces. It is situated at the southern part of the country’s largest island of L...
The Beginnings of “Kapeng Barako’s” Association with Batangas
Fact 1: Mention “kapeng barako” (Spanish: café verraco 1 ) and most people immediately think of the province of Batangas. This is despit...
Muslo and the Maliputo: the Great Fishes of Taal Lake and the Pansipit River
Back in the 1960s when this writer was still a young boy, his mother would take him along at daybreak on the forty or so minute ride to Le...
The Amusing Stories of Suan, Batangas’ Version of Juan Tamad
Long before mass media and the Internet became ubiquitous in every Filipino household, people entertained themselves by, among other thing...