Gabriel Silang Gallery of Fine Arts

Also worth a peak in Tayum is the former headquarters of Gabriela Silang. She is known widely as the Joan of Arc of Ilocania for being the first female leader of a Filipino movement for independence from Spain. Within the compound is the Gabriel Silang Gallery of Fine Arts, a private museum owned by the Cariño family that houses collections of retired Philippine Ambassador Rosario V. Carino. This gallery is filled with an impressive collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, artifacts, documents and books from different parts of the world that the former ambassador had amassed during his professional career. Its prized pieces include paintings by Juan Luna, Fernando Amorsolo, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Domenico Ghirlandaioto as well as paintings made by the former ambassador himself.

How to go — Gabriel Silang Gallery of Fine Arts is located along Teodoro Balmaceda Street in Poblacion, Tayum. It is a short walk away from the Tayum Church.