Welcome to the cemetery of Placido Penitente!

The libingan ng mga pari in Tanauan, Batangas is a beautiful, untouched cemetery
set in an equally beautiful, untouched setting.

To many Filipinos, Tanauan is the home of a hero: Apolinario Mabini, known as the Sublime Paralytic. To those who are familiar with Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo, this Batangas town is also the home of the fictional Placido Penitente, a brilliant but troubled student. 

What happened to the mortuary chapel of Malabon?

What was once a ruined mortuary capilla is now a two-level, semi-concrete structure.

Earlier, we featured the monumento of Malabon cemetery, an impressive two-storey structure and probably the largest of its kind in existence. At the rear of the cemetery behind this monument are the remains of a mortuary chapel, which might possibly date to 1853.

Uncovering the 'lost' cemetery of Guiguinto

This is all that remains of the entrance to the colonial-era cemetery of Guiguinto.

Would you ever think that just along a major highway lies the remains of a once-imposing cemetery? That's what the Pinoy Taphophile uncovered recently in Guiguinto, Bulacan.