At Center Of Town, Mapanas
From the Guinpandayan View Deck, I went straight to poblacion Mapanas, skipping the Pinusilan Rocks as I've been there last year. I realized I was running out of time!
First I saw was the municipal hall, since it's just along the highway. And this was it?
My scooter driver said matter of factly that that is really it. Honga naman ano? Ayan nakasulat na eh! Yet based on my roaming experiences, it can't be the real frontage.
I told him to stay where he was, and I went around via the street at right. O eto...
That is their municipal hall compound. And the building at left edge of that photo, is what faces the highway. Well, the compound is still or 'already small' for a town hall.
Aw, Mapanas is a small town, even by today's standards. Maybe what they have still properly fits all their municipal employees! They only have 13 barangays now, which grew from the original 7 barrios during creation in 1966 - a fairly young municipality.
I stood in front of the compound's gate, and saw this. Saludo ke Mr. Policeman!
Kagalang-galang, officer-na-officer ang lakad! He or I didn't know he was in my shot.
Hey, Mapanas is one of a few that still has its police office (building) inside the LGU compound. Yep, the typically 2 or 3-level, box-like, blue and white buildings? Did you notice, that in many places, they're now far from the munisipyo? Here it's the center!
Looking at its form and size, the building at right (covered by the guardhouse) most likely would be some kind of a gymnasium, events center or multi-purpose building.
Oh, let me correct my self pronto. It's not a guardhouse near the gate. It's a housing for their "standby generator set". I could partly see the edge of that huge machine!
And here is looking to the left side, as I stood at the gate of the compound.
It's a merry mix, a neighborhood of buildings that 'came to being' from various eras! I wonder which of those may have been the 'original' municipal building, circa 1966.
I was amused reading: Treasurer's, BPLO, Budget, Assessor, Tourism, Civil Registrar and then... Laundry Area! Yes, on that 2nd building, where the man is facing. O diba?
Kayo, ano meron sa munisipyo nyo, aber?!
Seriously, why the curiosity about this little 5th class town by the pacific, which sits on a typhoon superhighway? Aw, my 'madam auring' abilities is telling me, that this little town may soon become the next big thing for many. It shall be all about water!
Anyway, I roamed around all of poblacion proper (good that driver was okay with it). As in we passed by all streets of the town's central area (no sweat, it is not too big)!
Why? My usual search for those charming big old wood or stone ancestral houses! None here. Or maybe none anymore. Everything is fairly new or modernist brand new.
I'm not joking, although I think I know the reason. This is a "pacific town". Old, as in ancient abodes, will have been blown away or at least typhoon-wrecked years ago.
So everywhere I looked, the bigger houses are new as in concrete, and some of the newest ones have pre-fabs. Well, some even use glass on their windows and doors!
It looks like there are no more intact 'candidate heritage houses'.
And of course, because I roamed the whole town, I saw their church.
Let's go there next.
First I saw was the municipal hall, since it's just along the highway. And this was it?
I told him to stay where he was, and I went around via the street at right. O eto...
Aw, Mapanas is a small town, even by today's standards. Maybe what they have still properly fits all their municipal employees! They only have 13 barangays now, which grew from the original 7 barrios during creation in 1966 - a fairly young municipality.
I stood in front of the compound's gate, and saw this. Saludo ke Mr. Policeman!
Hey, Mapanas is one of a few that still has its police office (building) inside the LGU compound. Yep, the typically 2 or 3-level, box-like, blue and white buildings? Did you notice, that in many places, they're now far from the munisipyo? Here it's the center!
Looking at its form and size, the building at right (covered by the guardhouse) most likely would be some kind of a gymnasium, events center or multi-purpose building.
Oh, let me correct my self pronto. It's not a guardhouse near the gate. It's a housing for their "standby generator set". I could partly see the edge of that huge machine!
And here is looking to the left side, as I stood at the gate of the compound.
I was amused reading: Treasurer's, BPLO, Budget, Assessor, Tourism, Civil Registrar and then... Laundry Area! Yes, on that 2nd building, where the man is facing. O diba?
Kayo, ano meron sa munisipyo nyo, aber?!
Seriously, why the curiosity about this little 5th class town by the pacific, which sits on a typhoon superhighway? Aw, my 'madam auring' abilities is telling me, that this little town may soon become the next big thing for many. It shall be all about water!
Anyway, I roamed around all of poblacion proper (good that driver was okay with it). As in we passed by all streets of the town's central area (no sweat, it is not too big)!
Why? My usual search for those charming big old wood or stone ancestral houses! None here. Or maybe none anymore. Everything is fairly new or modernist brand new.
I'm not joking, although I think I know the reason. This is a "pacific town". Old, as in ancient abodes, will have been blown away or at least typhoon-wrecked years ago.
So everywhere I looked, the bigger houses are new as in concrete, and some of the newest ones have pre-fabs. Well, some even use glass on their windows and doors!
It looks like there are no more intact 'candidate heritage houses'.
And of course, because I roamed the whole town, I saw their church.
Let's go there next.
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