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THE CAPIZ BRIDGE

THE ROXAS CITY FOUNTAIN

tour. The goal is to keep tourists more knowledgeable about the place and a bit of its culture and history during their visit. Dubbed as the Walking Heritage Tour of the city, the educational tour will focus on the cultural aspects of the Capizeño and usually takes less than an hour to complete. Tourists who will be grouped for the tour, will be scheduled depending on their time availability. Assembly place is usu-allyally set at the City Hall in front lobby where tour guides will be stationed while waiting for more tour participants to come and join. Local tour guides will be available for the walking tour for a much lively, participative and informative tour activity. A film showing at the city’s “Ang Panubli-on” Museum will help visitors become well-informed of the local history and the men and women who contributed much in makingmaking what the city today as well as its humble begin-nings.

The tour wraps up with the participants either hunting to eat or doing some souvenir shopping at the city’s known souvenir shops. Mardeeb Give-away shoppe on Legaspi Street the Capiz shell decors at Capiz at iba pa display center and factory at Barangay Banica - the pasalubong center at the Dried Fish Center at the Banica Wharf just few meters away from Capiz at iba pa. Or simply munching somesome nutritious snack at Mama Jeans mushroom burger at Legaspi Street. It ends with pleasant goodbyes and good wishes to see them next time around when they visit again. (CAPIZtahan Publicity and Promotion Committee/Alger O. Inocencio)

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The 103-year-old bridge and the 88-year-old fountain, two of Roxas City’s major landmarks, will greet this year’s CAPIZTAHAN guests in their new looks. Those coming from other provinces for the first time will soon marvel at these city plaza structures particularly during the celebra-

tion of CAPIZTAHAN. Passing the bridge from the north sec-tion will keep visitors head turning on the blooming bougain-villeas on the river banks of the Panay in the heart of the city. The river, which is more enhanced during high tide, gave the City of Roxas the title “the Venice of Panay.” The river and the sprouting waters of the city fountain comple-ment each other in giving commuters and pedestrians a cooling effect necessary during the hot summer heat.

Visiting photo journalists coming to the city for the first time, passing this portion of the city, never failed to appreci-ate the beauty of these man-made sructures that gave the city plaza a pleasant scenario for tourists, both domestic and foreign. With the city’s Immaculate Conception Metro-politan Cathedral, the City Hall, the Paseo de Catedral, the old historic City Band Stand, the City Tourist Information Assistance Center, the City fountain/rotunda, the Provincial Capitol, the newly renovated Balay Kapisnon, the Presiden-tial Monument, and the city’s Ang Panubli-on Museum on its vicinity, and the nearby ancestral house of President Manuel Roxas at the corner of Rizal-Zamora streets, the whole area becomes a strategic and appropriate spot for historical and a cultural walking tour for tourists arriving or traveling in groups.

In effect, a walking tour has been readied by the City Tourism Promotion and Development Office after a sub-stantial number of participants joined last years’ walking