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During World War II, Bacolod City was occupied by the
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Bacolod City. The Ramos house, considered one of the most prominent of these houses, is the house built by the Ramos family patriarch Don
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The most prominent feature of the house is the three-storey octagonal tower that gave the owners a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding landscape. At the rear portion of the house is a rounded balcony adjacent to the master bedroom.
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Legendary in those days were his twenty or more cars of different makes chauffeured by
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to design and build a house for him in the
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Mariano Ramos, the first
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