MEXICO CITY – The bridge hangs high enough to fit the Eiffel Tower snug beneath it. Mexico's Puente Baluarte became the world's tallest cable-stayed bridge this month. Suspended 400 meters (1,312 feet ...
The Philippines Eusebio Baluarte has been hit for his “clownish behavior” in a Pan Asia Boxing Association light middleweight title fight in Perth, Australia in which Baluarte was stopped in the ...
Look out, bungee jumpers of the world. Mexico opened a new bridge that Guinness officials have named one of the world's highest. Mexican President Felipe Calderon officially opened the Baluarte Bridge ...
Veteran Dennis Laurente retained his Philippine welterweight title with a sensational 12th round TKO against game challenger Eusebio Baluarte before a large crowd at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati ...
At 1,321 feet high and 3,687 feet long, Mexico’s recently completed Baluarte Bridge is now the tallest bridge in the world. Spanning a ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains (also known as ...
DAGUPAN CITY—Officials and residents of Luna town in La Union province have asked authorities to act fast to prevent further damage to the 400-year-old “baluarte” (watchtower), the half part of which ...
If you look at a picture of an old fortress, with stone walls that remain solid but for gaps for cannons, you might think of Manila’s walled city, Intramuros. Or, if you are Visayan, you might think ...
400 years ago The “Baluarte” was built by the Spanish colonial government as a watchtower against pirates, who came to seize residents to make them slaves. It could also be against foreign invaders ...