Fil-Spanic Friendship Park and Buridek Museum

Children will enjoy this place. There are many trees abounding in this area, a good place to relax and breathe fresh air and let the children run and play in their mini playground. Aside from that, Buridek Museum is an interactive place to learn about Vigan—its History and Culture. Thus, children can learn all about Vigan here easily, and even adults will appreciate this place, too.

Buridek is an Ilocano word that means bunso, or the youngest child in the family. The Museum has three modules where visitors can learn about Vigan's history and culture. They made the museum an interactive place so children could learn all about Vigan, explaining it in a level that they could easily understand.

Meet our Buridek - SJ

Future look of Buridek 50 years from now -lol!

We learned a lot of Ilocano words here.  There are a lot of them printed on the walls translated in Tagalog and then in English.   

Recalling, here are some Ilocano words that I have learned:

• basang - batang babae (young girl)
• ballong - batang lalaki (young boy)
• lilong - lolo (grandfather)
• lilang - lola (grandmother)
• sabong - bulaklak (flower)
• burnay - paso, banga, palayok (clay pots)
• saka - paa (foot)
• tindahan - tiendaan (store)
• simbahan - simbaan (church)

Interactive game to learn some Ilocano words

 

The part of the module shares about Bigueño's way of living and their livelihood - weaving, farming, and pottery.  One of the rooms in their museums has toys that the children can play with, and they can have coloring activities   . A mini book collection for children is also available for reading activities.  I told pakner4lyf that if only Vigan was so near to Batangas, I'd always bring the children here.

Dolls wearing early Filipino Clothing

Interactive module how Vigan's signature food is cooked

The last module teaches about the signature Vigan foods - pinakbet, empanada, langgonisa and pipian.  You can learn all the ingredients needed and how to cook their specialty foods.

Aside from a mini playground, this area has an activity trail, which was closed during our visit. Children would need assistance from park staff to use this facility. There's also a swimming pool and a huge open space to conduct events.