VIGAN CITY: The old provincial jail building of Ilocos Sur, where the late President Elpidio Quirino was also born, was made a national museum in a ceremony coinciding with the holding the the 8th Kanna-widan Ylocos Festival from January 29 to February 13.

It appeared that the late president was born inside the structure because his father Mariano was then serving as a jail warden.

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