Balay ni Tan Juan (Gen. Juan Araneta Museum)
Bago City, Negros Occidental · about 27 km from 3ACs Apartment, Talisay City
Ancestral home of the 1898 revolution hero Gen. Juan Araneta, now a museum.
About
A bahay-na-bato with a coral-stone ground floor and a hardwood upper floor, keeping the story of Gen. Juan Araneta and of Bago. Large trees and gardens fill the backyard. It is the centre of Bago's Cinco de Noviembre celebration every November 5.
History
Gen. Juan Araneta led the 1898 Negros Revolution with Gen. Aniceto Lacson, which ended with the Spanish governor's surrender. The house became the General Juan Araneta Residence and Landmark Museum in 1996.
Why visit
The other half of the Cinco de Noviembre story (pair with the Lacson house in Talisay).
How to get there
Brgy. Lag-asan, Bago City — about 30 minutes south of Bacolod.
- Jeepney/bus Bacolod–Bago
- Tricycle in Bago
Prices (estimates)
- EntranceFree / donation
Hours / best time: Usually weekdays, daytime (reported closed Saturdays)
Nearby places
- St. John the Baptist Church, Araneta Monument & Bantayan Park — 1891 church, the hero's monument and Bago's riverside park in the town centre.
- Pulupandan Seaside & WWII Liberation Landing — Negros's closest point to Guimaras — where the liberators landed in 1945, now a sunset and seafood town.
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Valladolid — One of the largest Spanish-era stone churches on Negros, with twin bell towers on the highway.
- Our Lady of Candles Church, San Enrique — A Recollect parish from 1867 in a small rice-and-sugar town between Valladolid and Pontevedra.
- Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Church — Massive Romanesque church of brick and coral stone in the heart of La Carlota.