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The Dark History of Old Diplomat Hotel

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                     Baguio City is indeed gifted with a lots of preserved heritage one of those is  Old Diplomat Hotel . It is located at Dominican Hill in the City of Pines, Baguio.  Waze Direction   It was constructed and used to be a rest house and a seminary in the year 1911 and later on it was developed into a school and eventually, a hotel by  Dominican Order . In 1915 Old Diplomat Hotel was used as a school and named " Collegio del Santissimo Rosario" just in 2 years due to lack of students and later on revert to hotel. It was  bombed during the World War II and n umerous nuns and priests were beheaded here.                                   After the war, the old convent was reconstructed and finished in 1948 when it opened as a 33-bed hotel, while retaining some components from the past, like its large white stone cross.                          During the 1970's the hotel was managed by  Antonio Agpaoa , an entrepre