by webadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | See Biñan
Aside from the MRF, Biñan also has its own compost facility located in Barangay Langkiwa. Biodegradable trash is converted for use in the city’s three-hectare organic farm called “Big Basket”, a project of the Biñan City Youth and Sports Development Office, in...
by webadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | See Biñan
Centuries-old water dams that were constructed by the Dominicans during the Spanish times are still found at the border of Biñan, Santa Rosa, and Carmona. They are the Timbao Prinza Dam and Soro-soro Prinza Dam, as they are within the political territory of Barangay...
by webadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | See Biñan
At 1pm, December 17, 1871, Rizal left Biñan after a year and a half of formal schooling under Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz. On his diary Memorias de Un Estudiante de Manila (1878), he wrote: “One day I received a letter from my sister Saturnina informing me of...
by webadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Histo-cultural, See Biñan
The heavy roof of the mansion of the illustrious Alberto clan is made with tisa (brick tiles) which was banned in the 1880s so it is believed to have been erected way before that, perhaps two hundred years ago. The mansion was first owned by Don Lorenzo Alonso de...
by webadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Histo-cultural, See Biñan
Constructed by the Dominican friars, Casa Hacienda was essentially a silo for their crops as well as for its people’s taxes. This two-storey, two-century-old, perfectly symmetrical bahay na bato has since become a versatile structure that has sheltered different...
