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The skies have cleared and the moon was at its brightest and nearest to the Earth on one Sunday evening.  It was a rare natural phenomenon, “a supermoon”, as they call it and here we are in a hotel named after a moon Luna.

Coincidentally, the hotel’s name completed our share of the hyped supermoon experience.   It was an unexpected and last minute invitation as we were ready to leave the only heritage city in the Philippines with a heavy heart.
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The horse-drawn carriage, serving as our mode of transportation on one afternoon, passed by alleys and Spanish-inspired colonial houses sans the cobble-stoned pavements as the obstructed view of a small church painted in yellow with white linings came into sight. 

The electrical wirings from lamp posts erected on each corner of a busy intersection relatively hides the panoramic view of “Bassit nga Simbahan” of Vigan, City.
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“What’s zarzuela?” A socialite Filipina of a foreign accent asks randomly. I couldn’t utter a word to define such a term instead I described it as one of the best theater shows I have seen in years. And I was referring to the Tres Patrimoño staged at the Vigan Culture and Trade Center the night before.


So, what’s zarzuela to begin with?  By research, it is defined as a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song and dance rendition.
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A time machine is not that easy to invent. And even teleporting is not scientifically proven unless anyone here has done an extensive research to refute my point.

Calle Crisologo of Vigan City is the epitome of the so-called traveling-back-in-time scenario.  The street is aligned by Spanish ancestral houses, of azoteas in varying Spanish, Mexican and Chinese architectural styles, and ancient tile roofs as façade, complemented by cobble-stoned pavements. 

Truly, apt to be called The Vigan Heritage Village.
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The quirky names whose recipes have been passed on from one generation to another makes an intriguing culinary discovery.

Vigan City is one of the Hispanic settlements in the Philippines.  Apart from the architectural landscape greatly influenced by the Spaniards and even the early Chinese settlers on account of the Galleon Trade, Ilocano cuisine is more than a scintilla of evidence to prove the city’s origin.
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Traditional crafts and folk arts in the form of fabrics and jars is a testament of the rich cultural heritage preserved in the City of Vigan.

A pagburnayan (pottery barn) has produced a national artist in the city of Vigan and export quality fabrics were produced by the loom weavers. We were fortunate to have personally witnessed how these traditional crafts came into existence.
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I am a CPA-lawyer by profession and a full-time wanderer. My tsinelas (slippers) have been my constant companion in my quest to discover the world we live in. No matter which part of the world I am, though oftentimes mistaken of a different nationality, I am always proud to wear my slippers, a mark of a Filipino wanderer.

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