By Berna Romulo Puyat
Visiting Sta Hacienda Rosalia was like meeting a celebrity in person. The Gaston ancestral mansion in Manapla, near Bacolod, was immortalized as the star setting in Peque Gallaga’s film Oro, Plata, Mata.
The colonial plantation-style mansion was built in the mid 1930s by the sugar baron Jose Gaston and is now being maintained by his son, Msgr. Guillermo Gaston. The Monsignor also designed the hacienda’s unique chapel, the Chapel of the Cartwheels, which is built with different farming implements, most notably the carabao cartwheel that's used as stained glass windows and turned into open-air walls. Truly a special place to visit in Sugarlandia!
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