The oldest golf course in Southeast Asia is the 35-hectare Iloilo Golf and Country Club in Sta. ![]() ![]() Iloilo then had “the highest concentration of millionaires outside Manila,” and was the country’s most important province. The country’s first Millionaire’s Row is in Jaro, then a separate colonial city and referred to as the Mansion Capital of the Philippines. Though its airport was bombed by the Japanese during the war, the company still exists, providing chartered and medical-emergency flights. The country’s first commercial airline, established by the Lopezes, was launched at Fort San Pedro in 1933, eight years before Philippine Air Lines came into being. Founded by Englishman Henry Hoskyns in 1877, it introduced the fixed-price policy in merchandising and was known to sell “almost everything, from needle to anchor.” The country’s oldest shopping center is Hoskyns Department Store in downtown Iloilo City. Its seaport was integrated in the international trade as early as the 1850s. ![]() It used to be the Textile Capital of the Philippines and is the Rice Granary of the Visayas. What a fall!īecause in colonial times Iloilo was already there-second only to Manila as center of economy and education, trade and commerce, arts and culture. ![]() In the wake of Iloilo’s recent resurgence, the buzzword that it’s now the Philippines’ “next best thing” sounds rather pathetic.
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