Qualla: Lizares Mansion https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/j/lizares-mansion-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lizares Mansion https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion Lizares Mansion: Introduction https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion/ Photo credit Iloilo City Government, Public domain. Fifty-nine doors, each made of Philippine hardwood. That is what Don Emiliano Lizares gave his wife Conchita Gamboa when he built the Lizares Mansion in 1937 -- not just a house, but a three-story Beaux-Arts declaration of devotion in the Jaro district of Iloilo City. The architect was Andres Luna de San Pedro, whose father, Juan Luna, remains the most celebrated painter in Philippine history. The son designed a building with a winding wooden staircase, a basement, an attic, and large bedrooms with hardwood floors that would, within a few years, echo with sounds no one in the family could have imagined.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/j/lizares-mansion-wp/w9zj-lizares-mansion-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lizares Mansion: An Architect's Lineage https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion/ Photo credit Patrickroque01, CC BY-SA 4.0. Andres Luna de San Pedro carried a formidable name. His father, Juan Luna, had won the gold medal at the 1884 Exposicion General de Bellas Artes in Madrid for his monumental painting Spoliarium, a work that depicted fallen gladiators being dragged from a Roman arena and that beca...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/j/lizares-mansion-wp/w9zj-lizares-mansion-an-architects-lineage.mp3 0:06 2 full Lizares Mansion: Occupation and Its Ghosts https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion/ Photo credit Patrickroque01, CC BY-SA 4.0. When World War II reached the Visayas, the Lizares family fled to Pototan, a municipality deeper in Iloilo's interior. The Japanese army seized the mansion and made it their headquarters. What followed was grim. Filipino soldiers were tortured within its walls, and their bodies w...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/j/lizares-mansion-wp/w9zj-lizares-mansion-occupation-and-its-ghosts.mp3 0:06 3 full Lizares Mansion: Casino, Convent, Classroom https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion/ Photo credit Americana22ount, CC BY-SA 4.0. Don Emiliano Lizares died in 1950, and his widow left for Manila. The mansion's next chapter reads like a picaresque novel. A businessman leased it and converted it into a casino, which the city mayor eventually shut down on the grounds that it was corrupting the local population...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/z/j/lizares-mansion-wp/w9zj-lizares-mansion-casino-convent-classroom.mp3 0:06 4 full Lizares Mansion: Screen Star and Cultural Treasure https://qualla.com/lizares-mansion/ Photo credit Inaudita, CC BY-SA 3.0. The mansion's photogenic grandeur has attracted Philippine television producers repeatedly. It served as a filming location for the 2022 Netflix Philippine remake of the Korean drama A Love to Kill, starring Ian Veneracion, and for ABS-CBN's The Iron Heart the same year. In 2024,...

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