Do you want a flashback from the Spanish time? Or just a background to prove that somewhere, sometime, the Filipinos were influenced by the people of Spain or Spaniards? Or maybe, you just want to see an extra-ordinary architecture or work of arts? Or exactly, you just want to see one beautiful street in the Philippines. Well, Calle Crisologo in Vigan, Ilocos Sur is the answer to all your expectations. One beautiful amazing street surrounded by houses built during the Spanish time. Indeed, one perfect place for a tour of the past.
This world is such a big old place, so open and so wide. Calle Crisologo is the major attraction of Vigan is its mestizo district which is filled with Spanish-style houses that evoke a bygone era when its people lived prosperously because of the Manila-Acapulco maritime trade. For visitors who want to experience being transported back to this period in Philippine Spanish colonial time, a walk or a calesa ride through Vigan’s Calle Crisologo or Mena Crisologo Street is a must. The tour will take visitors more than a couple of hours and will cost around half a thousand pesos. You will be guided through four blocks of cobblestone streets lined with heritage houses of the families of the Filipino-Chinese traders who rose to prominence during that time of vigorous trading in abel cloth, indigo, gold, tobacco and other goods that were transported to Vigan from all over the North.
Most of the youngster here still believe in respecting the old.They show this respect with Mano Po without having to be told, I must admit that living here in this city has in so many ways. The men still act like men and the women are so nice and sweet, They are some of the friendliest people you will ever want to meet I am talking of course of living on the islands of the Philippines. Where time and space turn you back sometimes it seems, The life here on the islands is so great and I will never forget. How after moving here I just felt like I had nothing left to fret, If I had a wish I’d wish that someday everyone will get to view, The great people and beauty here, maybe they will love it too.
