3 facts about Spanish heritage houses in Batangas, San Juan, Philippines

The foresight of a local population which decided not to welcome economic development in the form of a pollutive copper smelter in the late 1970s has helped to preserve the natural beauty -and the heritage houses, in San Juan, Batangas, Philippines
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