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Balagtas ([bɐlɐgˈtas]), officially the Municipality of Balagtas (Tagalog: Bayan ng Balagtas), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77,018 people.
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), [1] commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltazar, was a Filipino poet and litterateur of the Tagalog language during the Spanish rule of the Philippines.
Hermogenes Ilagan (Balagtas) – tenor, writer, stage actor, and playwright known as the Father of Philippine Zarzuela; Francisco Balagtas, also known as or Francisco Baltazar (Panginay, Bigaa) – writer, author of Florante at Laura. Jose Corazon de Jesus (pen name "Huseng Batute"; Santa Maria, his father's hometown) – poet
The Parish Church of Saint Lawrence of Rome, Deacon and Martyr, commonly known as the Balagtas Church (Filipino: Simbahan ng Balagtas), is an 18th-century Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in the Municipality of Balagtas in the Philippines, dedicated to Saint Lawrence, one of the most venerated Roman martyrs, celebrated for his Christian valor.
Derived from the name of Francisco Balagtas also known as the Prince of Balagtasan, this art presents a type of literature in which thoughts or reasoning are expressed through speech. The first balagtasan took place in the Philippines on April 6, 1924, created by groups of writers to commemorate the birth of Francisco Balagtas. [1]
Florante at Laura [a] is an 1838 awit written by Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas.The story was dedicated to his former sweetheart María Asunción Rivera, whom he nicknamed "M.A.R." and Selya in Kay Selya ("For Celia").
Balagtas station is an under-construction elevated North–South Commuter Railway (NSCR) station located in Balagtas, Bulacan, Philippines. [1] The station was part of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) North Main Line before its closure in the 1980s. [2] It was also the terminus of the defunct Balagtas–Cabanatuan line. [3]
According to the "Guia de 1839", Bulacan province on the island of Luzon, Philippines, was governed by a mayor and consisted of 19 pueblos, 36,394 tributes and 181,970 souls. [20] D. Felipe Gobantes, Alcalde of the province of Bulacan erected a stone column in the plaza of Bulacan in Memory of Fr. Manuel Blanco O.S.A. who died on April 1, 1845.