come and visit:)

 

 

the ruins is located at Talisay City Neg. Occ.

 

Stories Behind the Ruins

The story behind the Ruins is that it was built by Don Mariano in memory of his departed wife Maria Braga who died while giving birth to their youngest child in 1911. It’s the sort of love story that made some people refer to the mansion as the Taj Mahal of the Philippines. Like we have Elvis, Paris, and Jun Pyo of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the mansion is also the story of how powerful sugar barons were before the country’s sugar cane industry collapsed in the late 1970s during the Marcos-era. And the mansion is an enduring symbol of how huge the gap was between the rich and the poor even in the early 20th century. Keep in mind that it was built during the time when majority of Filipinos could only build houses made mostly of bamboo and nipa, and most Filipinos still unloaded their browns in outhouses.