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SILAY AND
VICTORIAS |
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| North of Bacolod, SILAY is one of the historic centres of the sugar
industry. The few tourists that come here do so for the sugar trains and
the marvellous ancestral houses. The most interesting aspect of the
trains - iron dinosaurs, as they are known - is that they are fuelled by
bagasse, a by-product of sugar production. Silay offers a first-rate
impression of what life was like in the heyday of the plantations. It's
worth making time to spend a few hours at the Balay Negrense Museum , 5
Novembre St (daily except Mon & holidays 10am-6pm; free), a lifestyle
museum and formerly one of the grandest plantation homes in the area.
Silay is a 45-minute ride north of Bacolod by bus or jeepney. In
neighbouring VICTORIAS , at the Vicmico Public Relations Office on
Ossario Avenue, is the Church of St Joseph the Worker, built 1948-50.
The church is home to the controversial icon called the Angry Christ,
which depicts Jesus sitting in front of the hands of God, straddling a
serpent-spewing skull. |
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