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| Photo from New7Wonders CITIES Global Voting Site |
Vigan City, the Philippines' lone entry, made it to the list of 21 cities going through the next phase of Swiss Foundation New7Wonders.
In an aim to create a "global memory", New7Wonders Founder and President Bernard Weber announced the longlist of the New7WondersCities which contains 21 finalists.
Vigan is the capital of the Province of Ilocos Sur.
According to the 2010 Philippines census, it has a population of 49,747 people.
It is a World Heritage Site in that it is one of the few Hispanic towns left in the Philippines where its structures remained intact, and is well known for its cobblestone streets, and a unique architecture that fuses Philippine and Oriental building designs and construction, with colonial European architecture.
The global election started on March 7 last year. People all over the world voted for their choices among 300 cities to come up with the long list of 77.
The New7Wonders Cities Panel of Experts
advise on the selection of the 28 Official Finalist Candidates.
Cebu City and Iloilo also vied for the title but they both failed to be qualified for the next phase.
Voting for the New7Wonders Cities Finalists continues across three phases:
Cebu City and Iloilo also vied for the title but they both failed to be qualified for the next phase.
Voting for the New7Wonders Cities Finalists continues across three phases:
- 28-21 phase
21 Oct 2013 - 7 July 2014
- 21-14 phase
7 July 2014 - 7 Oct 2014
- 14-7 phase
7 Oct 2014 - 7 Dec 2014
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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
I write about darkness because I want to show the light — Jose Rizal
He has been involved in different advocacy and defending human rights. As a blogger, writer, netizen and an advocate, he has found focus & interest on sexuality & reproductive health, deaf rights & legal access and youth development, leadership, environment advocacy, issues in the nation and in the world, religion, culture and human rights At the age of 14, he has fully embraced the call of leadership.
He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.
He is an officer and a church choir organist of the Church of Christ (Iglesia Ni Cristo)
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