Have you heard about the place called "The Ruins"? It was located at the
farmlands of Talisay City Negros Occidental. About 40-50minutes travel
from Bacolod City downtown.
It was an mansion owned
by Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson a spanish-filipino sugar baron and it was
built in the memory of his european wife Maria Braga Lacson after her
death. They had the biggest mansion in the province at that time. It was
made with cement mixed with egg whites. And this mansion have europen
and asian furnishings. There is an fountain outside the mansion
sorrounded by beautiful lilies.
In the early part of World War II, Don Mariano found
out that the japanese forces were planning to make the mansion their
headquarters, so he asked the filipino guerillas to burn his mansion to
prevent japanese from making it as their headquarters. And it took days
for them to bring down the mansion. But the architecture remains.
And now "The Ruins" was known as one of the most famous tourist spot in Bacolod City.
