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[Ilonggo Notes] Exploring Plaza Libertad, Iloilo’s first town square
Plaza Alfonso XII was renamed “Plaza Libertad” after the flag of Philippine Independence was first raised in the Visayas on December 25, 1898, shortly after then-Spanish governor-general Diego de los Rios left Iloilo, the last colonial capital in the …