A number of old haciendas in the municipality have been renovated and adapted to new uses.
In addition, there are a number of old haciendas which have been converted into hotels, spas and other recreational facilities.
Pico looked at the ruins of his fine old hacienda and sighed.
In the 1920s, there was haphazard and unregulated subdivision development over old haciendas with the initial purpose of building country homes.
It is a beautiful old hacienda on eight acres with horseback riding and mountain biking.
The main school in Marikina gave up the old hacienda and moved to a new storey building just a stones throw away.
On the far southern edge of the city sits an old hacienda where the cowboy star Tom Mix lived at his death in 1940.
There has not been any great wave of peasants selling their land, nor have the old haciendas returned.
The area also has old haciendas open to tourism.
The logo for the station is a cart with an old hacienda in the background.