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The article was published in the Bangon newspaper under the pseudonym PA-SA-BE. Besides the pseudonym, not much is known about the author. In addition to writing about travels to other countries, travelogues were also written about traveling within…

Domingo Ponce, along with Crisanto Evangelista and Cirilo Bognot, was the founder of the "Partido Obrero de Filipinas" (Labor Party of the Philippines). Founded in 1924,this organization saw itself as the antithesis of colonial political parties and…

Jesús Balmori (1887-1948) was a Filipino poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote in Spanish. One of his most celebrated works is the collection of poems called Mi Casa de Nipa, with which he won first prize in the national literary contest in 1938.…

Albert van Gansewinkel (1903-1999) was the Father Rector of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. In 1953, he traveled from Italy to his homeland Germany and wrote a travelogue of his trip, which was published in the newspaper of his alma mater,…

B. Skou was the Philippine representative of Parke, Davis & Company who, in 1929, returned to Manila by passing through communist Russia. His experience of the country was then published in The American Chamber of Commerce Journal. In his…

This article, written by Manuel B. Montes, was published in the Spanish-language daily newspaper Excelsior, founded in 1917 by Rafael Alducin. Montes gives an account of his trip to Paris and comments various Parisian features that he deems…

Antonio Luna y Novicio (1866-1899) is well known for having been the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 1898 until his death in 1899, as portrayed in a famous Filipino film, Heneral Luna (2015). Before being active in the Filipino army,…