Casa Gorordo: Symbol of Rich Filipino Family in 18th Century

These pictures are take during our Cebu City Tour with my friend from Manila. The ambiance of the place certainly give you the impressions that the country is so Rich during Spanish time. There are no hunger and less poor Filipino that time. The only issue of this period is politics and religion.

18th Century Bedroom of Rich Filipino Family
18th Century Bedroom of Rich Filipino Family

Everything here can be seen in actual if you visit the Gorordo Family Museum located in old downtown Cebu.

 

Room Table and antique chair
Room Table and antique chair

 

A small table with the old mirror are shown here. You can see that during the age of spaniards, Filipino love to place photos of their love one and family right inside the bedroom. This is the tradition that still exist today despite the presence of computer and facebook.

 

Female beauty table
Female beauty table

This is more likely the beauty table of a Filipina. The cabinet drawer are for comb while there are small to big size mirror. The old kerosene lamb is also present.

 

Centur old Function Room
Function Room

Here the old Filipino family is meeting they visitors.

 

Antique musical instruments
Antique musical instruments

Since there are no hightech musical instruments like dvd player, casette player, computer and Iphone, our old folks enjoy piano, violin and this huge disc player.

Prayer room
Prayer room

Since Filipino are religious, old family have separate prayer room in their house.

Play Table
Play Table

It seems this is the favorite game of our ancestor.  Many house in the Philippines still have SUNGKA yet this kind of game is now missing as we play with our computer games, mobile phone like Iphone and samsung, xbox and tablet.

Antique Wall Clock that play sound at set time

This is 18th Century wall clock of the old Filipino Family.

For travel assistance or Cebu City Tour Package, please call 09202449685. At P2500 you can tour the whole Cebu City using Aircon Starex Van. This is 6 hours tour package within Cebu City. This is good for maximum of 8 persons only.

 

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