Tuklas Tayabas Historical Society

17/12/2025

Suwisan ng Tayabas

𝐒𝐔𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐒, 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒: 𝐀𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧 - 𝐈𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐲𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚 𝐬𝐚 𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐚 𝐧𝐢 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐒. 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 (𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒)

Sa lumang Tayabas noong dekada 1920, ang Suwisan ay higit pa sa karaniwang pistang bukid—ito ang taunan at pinakamahalagang pagtitipon ng mga magsasaka matapos ang anihan. Ginaganap sa iba’t ibang bayan tuwing Mayo hanggang Hulyo, nagiging sandigan ito ng komunidad upang magsaya, magpulong, at pag-usapan ang mahahalagang usaping pangbaryo. Sa panahong bihira ang komunikasyon sa kanayunan, ang Suwisan ang nagsilbing bukas na daan para marinig at makita ang ugnayan ng pamahalaan at taumbaryo.

Habang papalapit ang pista, abala ang lahat: may ambagan ng bigas, prutas, gulay, manok, alak, at kung anu-ano pang handog. Sa araw ng Suwisan, sampung magsasakang may kabayo ang naghahatid sa mga opisyal ng munisipyo, salubong ang tugtog ng sungay ng kalabaw at pagbati ng mga dalaga. Dito rin nagaganap ang halalan ng barrio officers, pati na ang pagdinig ng mga alitan—mga sigalot sa lupa, irigasyon, pagnanakaw ng hayop—na inaayos sa harap ng komunidad nang hindi umaabot sa hukuman. Kaya ang Suwisan ay nagiging sagradong espasyo ng usapan, patakaran, at sama-samang pagpapasya.

Pagsapit ng hapon at dapit-hapon naman, sumisiklab ang awitan at pandanggo, isang marangyang gabi ng kanta, sayaw, at pag-inom. Ang mga mang-aawit ay nag-aalay ng awit habang nagbibigay ng alak sa mga panauhin; maaari pang humiling ang isang lalaki ng isa pang awit kapalit ng isa pang tagay. Ang buong baryo ay nalulugmok sa saya hanggang madaling-araw, isang sandaling pahinga mula sa walang-humpay na hirap ng bukid.

Sa wakas, sinabi ni Estrella na ang Suwisan ay hindi dapat ipawalang-bisa, sapagkat ito ay paaralang pampulitika at panlipunan para sa magsasaka. Dito nila naririnig ang mga batas, nalalaman ang tungkulin nila sa bayan, at naipapaabot ang kanilang hinaing sa pamahalaan. Sa ganitong diwa, ang Suwisan ng Tayabas ay hindi lamang pista—isa itong buhay na aral ng pagkakaisa, pag-unlad, at malasakit ng isang buong lalawigan.

SOURCE: National Library of the Philippines – Tagalog Paper No. 437 (Luis S. Estrella, 1924)
゚viralシ

07/10/2025

Pagbati sa bayan ng Sariaya!

Ngayong darating na Huwebes, Oktobre 9, 2025, pasisinayanan ang unang panandang pangkasaysayan para sa isang monumento ni Dr. Jose Rizal dito sa lalawigan ng Quezon.

Ang nasabing marker ay bunga ng ilang taong pagpupursige ni Sir Danny de Luna at mga kasama para sana sa centennial commemoration noong 2024.

06/10/2025

Sa kasalukuya ang structure ng simbahan ng Tayabas ay higit 170 taon na. Dumaan na sa ilang beses na internal restoration pero nakaligtaan bigyang pansin ang structural repairs ng simbahan.

Nakikita na natin na panahon na para ipanawagan at paghandaan ang total restoration and renovation ng buong gusali ng Basilika Menor ni San Miguel Arkanghel.

18/08/2025

Quezon Day@147

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 - 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐙𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄

𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘰𝘯: Party per fess by an arched rainbow proper, a chief Or, an Inescutcheon parted per bend Azure and Gules over the head of Manuel Luis Quezon couped in profile supported by two sea-lions regardant Argent armed with swords, on base Azure, a field Vert over waves Celeste and Argent, with Mount Banahaw proper with the Philippine sun rayonnant Or emerging from its summit, over a coconut tree leaved and fructed proper.

The Province of Tayabas first adopted an official seal around 1902 following the enactment of its first provincial charter (Act No. 103) on March of the preceding year, pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section 2 of Act No. 83 of the Provincial Organization Act, which required all provincial governments to adopt a corporate seal for the purpose of certifying all documents lawfully issued under its name. The original 1902 seal was a simple and straightforward design: A lone coconut tree (symbolizing the province’s principal crop and source of livelihood) growing from a verdant meadow in the left-side foreground and Mount Banahaw in the right-side background, all against the backdrop of a blue sky.

The first provincial seal was used from 1902 up until the 1950s, when its revision was necessitated by the passage of two laws: Republic Act No. 74 in 1946, which renamed the province of Tayabas into “Quezon” in honor of its most famous son, and of Republic Act No. 648, in 1951, which removed the “contracosta” towns at the northernmost portion of the province facing the Pacific Ocean under its jurisdiction and made a sub-province named “Aurora” in honor of Quezon’s late wife, the former First Lady Aurora Aragon. Gilbert S. Perez, Secretary of the Philippine Heraldry Committee at that time, was put up to task in coming up with a new design for the renamed province.

Recognizing the attachment the people of Tayabas had to the historic symbols of their province, Perez decided to retain the elements of the original 1902 seal, making a few modifications to them: all elements were now placed on top of each other for symmetry, and the eight-rayed sun of the Philippine flag was added emerging from the summit of Mount Banahaw, symbolizing the province’s historic role as one of the eight provinces placed under a state of war during the Revolution of 1896-98.

The most important addition in the revised design is the chief of gold, with an escutcheon of Manuel Quezon’s bust in profile, an element adopted from the original corporate seal of Quezon City (another story for another time) indicating his revered status as the province’s namesake and most celebrated scion, despite the fact that Quezon’s hometown of Baler was no longer part of the province at the time the revised seal was adopted. The inescutcheon is supported in either side by two silver lion-headed dolphins ‘regardant’ (that is to say, looking back), a heraldic motif originating from the historic coat of arms of the city of Manila, which was later on appropriated by various offices of the national government as a symbol of executive power, with its most prominent use being in the Seal of the President of the Philippines, an office which Quezon held from 1935 until his passing in 1944.

Perez nonetheless overdid himself in his design: instead of simply parting the shield with a horizontal line as is usually the case in civic arms, he utilized a rarely-used heraldic ordinary: a rainbow, a symbol of hope, which represented “the hope of the future of the country which was always uppermost in the life and works of Manuel Quezon.”

13 August is the 127th anniversary of the Liberation of Tayabas from Spanish control during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution in 1898, while 19 August is the 147th birth anniversary of President Manuel Luis Quezon.

04/07/2025

Salamat NHCP.

HERITAGE ALERT: NHCP stops project endangering Spanish era bridge in Tayabas

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has issued a cease-and-desist order against a road widening project which threatens the integrity of Puente de Nangca in Barangay Baguio, Tayabas City, Quezon.

This is in response to the concern raised by the local histo-cultural group Tuklas Tayabas which wrote a letter to the commission, asking for immediate action on the said project.

The bridge is one of more than 50 Spanish era bridges in Tayabas, more than 10 of which are declared National Cultural Treasures.

Puente de Nangca is a presumed important cultural property under the heritage law, thus must be protected against damage or demolition.

The NHCP ordered the Quezon 1st District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways to stop the project pending the submission of a heritage impact assessment.

It also ordered the agency to coordinate with the Quezon Provincial Heritage Council and the local government of Tayabas and consider “alternatives to preserve the historical integrity of the site.”

Images: Courtesy NCCA

07/04/2025

Para sa restoration ng mga lumang painting ng Simbahan.

28/08/2024

Ngayong darating na Sabado sama-sama nating tuklasin ang hiwaga at kasaysayan ng Dasal at Panata ng mga taga-Lakawan sa Bayan ng Tayabas, Quezon.

Para makatanggap ng sertipiko mangyari i-click ang link ng pagpapatala:
https://forms.gle/nyaHw3mV6XdHJA167

26/08/2024

Mamaya na!

Bundok Banahaw: Larawan ng Kultura at Natural na Yaman.

Para makatanggap ng Sertipiko mangyari i-click ang link ng pagpapatala:
https://forms.gle/imf3Vqgy3kxH9SdT8

23/08/2024

Bilang pakikiisa ng Tuklas Tayabas Historical Society sa buwan ng Kasaysayan, aming inihahandog katuwang ang Pambansang Komisyong Pangkasaysayan ng Pilipinas ang isang libre talakayan tuon sa Bundok Banahaw.
Makakasama si G. Jebel Musa ng Tanggol Kalikasan Inc. sa pagbabahagi ng kanyang pananaliksik at mga karanasan sa mayamang kultura at natural na yaman ng Banahaw.

Magpatala
https://forms.gle/imf3Vqgy3kxH9SdT8

11/08/2024

Quezon Independence Day 2024 Lecture

Salamat po Tourism Quezon Province

09/08/2024

Bukas na!

Sa unang pagkakataon gugunitain ng Lalawigan ng Quezon ang Trece de Agosto 1898 ang Araw ng Kalayaan ng Lalawigan.

06/08/2024

Trece de Agosto 1898.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚜! 🗓️

𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚙𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚊 𝚜𝚊 𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚔𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗!

𝙹𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚞𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚞𝚖 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐙𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝚘𝚗 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟶, 𝚂𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝟷 𝙿𝙼 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚅𝚁 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚣𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 (𝟹𝚛𝚍 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚛), 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚘𝚕 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙱𝚛𝚐𝚢 𝟷𝟶, 𝙻𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚊 𝙲𝚒𝚝𝚢. 📍

𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐒𝐎 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏"𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎 𝚍𝚎 𝙰𝙶𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙾 𝟷𝟾𝟿𝟾: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚣𝚘𝚗".





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