City of Talisay Cebu Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office

26/05/2026

26/05/2026

The Financial Caravan is coming to the City of Talisay!

Empowering MSMEs through financial knowledge, financing opportunities, and direct access to financial institutions.

Learn through financial literacy, financial management, and financial protection sessions designed to help entrepreneurs make informed business decisions and better manage their finances. Participants may also explore loan programs, understand application processes, access available financial services, and raise concerns involving financial institutions under the supervision of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

See you this May 29, 2026 at the 2nd Floor, People’s Hall, City Hall of Talisay, Cebu.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and discover financial programs and services that can help grow your business.

More details will be posted soon.

24/05/2026

City of Talisay - The Lechon Capital of the Philippines

24/05/2026

DID YOU KNOW that before lechon became Cebu'a popular delicacy in the postwar period, Talisay had already been recognized as the Lechon Capital of the Cebu due to this woman? Susana Enjambre, recognized as the Mother of the Lechon Industry in Talisay, initiated the lechon business before the war since Talisay was one of the summer vacation destinations during the American period. She was born on January 2, 1886, and she was married to Dionesio Enjambre. According to newspaper articles from the Bag Ong Kusog, lechon business in Talisay started as early as the 1930s. She is regarded as the first mangasalay to enter the lechon industry prior to the war.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL MOTHERS IN TALISAY.

Sources:
Museo de Talisay
Bag Ong Kusog 1930 clippings

10/05/2026

Blockbuster Mother's Day Sunday at our Talisay Lechon Food Park! ✨️🌷

Happy Mother's Day to all Talisaynon mothers out there! Treat yourselves with our world famous and pinakalamian nga lechon sa Talisay! ✨️🩷

10/05/2026

Context: He was the First Non-Talisaynon Mayor of Cebu when he was appointed by the Japanese Administration during the Japanese occupation of Talisay. Moreover, he started his political career as writer, and debater of Cebu's local newspaper. In the 1930, he was elected councilor of Cebu City.

01/05/2026

𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐆𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐆𝐔𝐬 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐅𝐅, 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒

The 17th Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Cebu has encouraged Local Chief Executives (LCEs) to prioritize the regularization of tourism officers and their employees and to formally establish tourism offices.

Fifth District Board Member Andrei “Red” Duterte sponsored the resolution encouraging these tourism initiatives.

The Cebu Provincial Board recognizes that a significant number of tourism officers and staff remain in contractual, casual, or job order status despite the critical role they play.

This situation leaves tourism officers and staff without security of tenure, benefits, and the protections accorded to regular government employees.

“The regularization of tourism officers and their employees is essential to ensuring continuity of service, institutional knowledge, and program implementation, as high personnel turnover due to job insecurity undermines the effectiveness of tourism initiatives,” the Resolution states.

Board Member Duterte also filed a resolution requesting the Cebu Provincial Government to provide an equitable subsidy to local government units (LGUs) to support them in creating their respective Tourism Master Plans.

The said Resolutions were co-authored by Seventh District Board Member Paz Rozgoni and approved by the sanggunian during its regular session last Monday, April 27, 2026.

01/05/2026

Today, as we celebrate Labor Day, we recognize the invaluable contribution of every tourism worker who helps drive our local economies forward.

The Cebu Association of Local Tourism Officers stands in full support of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s initiative to regularize tourism personnel and strengthen local tourism offices—an important step toward dignifying the work of those behind our thriving destinations.

Tourism is powered by people. By securing their welfare, we ensure stronger communities, sustainable development, and inclusive growth for every Local Government Unit.

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

📜 DID YOU KNOW?

Don Potenciano “Maestro Poten” Alino was the FIRST Visayan writer to translate José Rizal’s Mi Último Adiós into the Cebuano language.

His version, “Ang Katapusang Panamilit,” was published in 1902 in the local newspaper Pamantalaan nga Filipino, which he also edited.

🇵🇭 But his story doesn’t end there…

Maestro Poten was a leader of the 1898 Talisay Revolution, and once served as:
• Escribiente in the court of Judge Segundo Singson
• Directorcillo (Municipal Secretary) of Talisay in 1889 under Gobernadorcillo Hilario Bacus

From 1893 to 1896, he and Don Florencio Gonzales represented the inquilinos in Manila—where he may have been initiated into the Katipunan while staying in Tondo.

In 1901, he surrendered to American authorities. During the American period, he:
• Established two Spanish grammar schools in San Nicholas and Cansojong, Talisay
• Served as a translator of the New Testament into the vernacular

📖 Remarkably, this translation is the ONLY surviving work of Maestro Poten after the war—
and is considered the oldest known Cebuano translation of Mi Último Adiós.

📍 Photo: Casa Gorordo Museum

SOURCES:
Bag-ong Kusog (1932)
Marben S. Bascon, Dos de Abril Talisay: 1898 Revolution (unpublished material)

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