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By Minerva Newman
The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) re-opens the Casa Gorordo Museum to the public today proudly reconnecting to our roots, reaching back into Cebu's rich and storied heritage. The house-museum, so beloved, by Cebuanos and visitors alike, re-opens with an ochre and green exterior, departing from its dark brown signature patina of the past four decades.

The repainted façade is deemed more faithful to the ethos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the period during which Casa Gorordo served as the dwelling of the Reynes and Gorordo families, the latter having had four generations living in it until the 1980s.

Declared by the National Historical Institute in 1991 as a National Historical Landmark, Casa Gorordo cradles within its walls treasures of Cebuano identity, from farm and household implements to riveting vignettes about the society that populated Cebu City's Parian district during the Spanish and American colonial periods. It offers an authentic experience of the domestic lifestyle of the affluent, landed gentry of that time.  The ground level displays are now updated to better illustrate how it functioned as the urban receiving hub for produce coming from countryside plantations.

The first floor of the house also vividly
communicates the grandeur of Cebuano faith during the colonial era. Jingjing Mariño-Farrarons Casa Gorordo Museum

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