Pictures of The Ruins

I didnt took these pictures.. but i posted them anyway, whoever took these pics is awesome! I'll be posting our own pics next time if i will get the copies from friends camera :) anyhow, enjoy the pics :)

The Ruins

The Ruins

my friends and i went to this place called "The Ruins".. personally i wanted to go to this place a long time ago..but never had the chance to..so when one of my friends suggested that we go there yesterday, i grabbed the oppurtunity.. here are some pics of the "ruins" and some little history about it.

here are some details about THE RUINS which can be found in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. (taken from the brochure)

The structure of THE RUINS is of Italianate architecture with neo-romanesque columns, having a very close semblance to the facade of carnegie hall in new york city. in new england, they often were homes to ships captains. a belvedere, facing west, affords a beautiful view of the sunset in a glassed-in sunroom with bay windows.the mansion was built in the early 1900’s by the sugar baron, don mariano ledesma lacson and was home to his unmarried children with his first wife, maria braga lacson, a portuguese from macau. the mansion was the largest residential structure ever built at that time and had in it one of the finest furnitures, chinawares, and decorative items, as the father of maria braga was a captain of a ship that sailed across europe and asia and would cart with him these items. one of their daughters maintained a beautiful garden of lillies in and around the 4-tiered fountain fronting the mansion, all brough in from abroad.one of the sons supervised the construction of the mansion making certain that the A-grade mixture of concrete and its pouring was precisely followed.the mansion met its sad fate in the early part of world war II when the USAFFE (united states armed forces in the far east), then guerilla fighters in the philippines, burn the mansion to prevent the japanese forces from utilizing it as their headquarters. it took days of inferno to bring down the roof and the 2-inch wooden floors.to this day, the 903 square meter structure still stands tall amidst sugar plantations and continues to awe both local and foreign tourists.

----the place is breathtaking, great for pictorials, events, dining, or simply if you just wanted to hang out with you loved ones. I cant wait to go back there :)

i have always wanted to write a blog.. but never had the time or never had the inspiration to do it..

i have a lot of thoughts on different things all the time and i wanted to share it through this blog. this would serve as my catharthis and a therapy as well.

now i finally took the first step.. hello blog world! :)