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Colloquially called the "Big Church" in Kapampangan, it was constructed from 1877 to 1896 by the "Polo y Servicio" labor system, a kind of forced labor imposed on Filipino peasants by the Spanish colonial government. It was used as a …
Located at the heart of Santo Rosario, it is the oldest building in the city. It was built in 1824 by the city founder, Don Ángel Pantaleón de Miranda, and his wife, Doña Rosalia de Jesus, and was inherited by …
It is a building that was constructed in 1899 for the purpose of depositing religious statues and carriages of the Catholic Church, hence the name Deposito. It was also used as the headquarters of the 11th Film Exchange U.S. Army …
The former headquarters of American cavalry divisions sent to the Philippines during the Philippine-American War. Destroyed in World War II, only its gateposts remains.
A minor basilica dedicated to Saint Anne, beside the Taguig River in Barangay Santa Ana, the old town of the city. It faces Plaza Quezon, where a statue of Manuel L. Quezon was raised while he was president.
A small zoo in Potrero, with caged animals, an aquarium and gardens. Manny Tangco founded it around 1989. The animals carry the names of politicians, actors and other public figures, and they include Bengal tigers, lions, bears, deer, orangutans and …
The mother church of Makati, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and standing in Poblacion, the old heritage barangay. In front of the facade is Plaza Cristo Rey, which used to be the San Pedro de Macati cemetery. The National …
A beach town on a natural harbour, and the usual way into Oriental Mindoro from Luzon. The harbour shelters ships, yachts and bancas from typhoons blowing in off the Pacific, and in November 2004 the bay joined the UNESCO-affiliated Club …
A church of 1690 in Luna, declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. Its titular is Saint Catherine of Alexandria. It is also the shrine for the image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception …
An aquarium and park that opened in 2025, the first of its kind in Ilocos Sur. It shows a wide range of marine life, including stingrays and coral reefs.
The city's parish church, built in the Earthquake Baroque style, with a four-storey octagonal bell tower. The tower alternates open and blind openings, carries a balustrade and is topped by a campanile. An Augustinian mission put the first church in …
A Baroque church built from coral instead of adobe, which is unusual among the Spanish-era churches of Central Luzon. It dates from the 18th century, stands in barangay South Poblacion and is dedicated to Saint Andrew the Apostle. The facade …
This urban park in Mabalacat City takes its name from the former Fort Stotsenburg. The fort's own barangay joined the city in 1948, adding to a place whose Kapampangan name comes from the balakat tree that once grew here in …
A wetland of about 32,000 hectares of freshwater ponds, marshes and seasonally flooded grassland, 60 kilometres northeast of Manila. The whole area goes under water in the wet season, and it works as a flood basin for five smaller rivers …
Another chapel serves residents of Palayan City, about 14 kilometers from Cabanatuan and some 130 kilometers from Manila. The city houses Nueva Ecija's provincial capitol, convention center, and sports center, and San Isidro Labrador Chapel is one of several small …
This chapel serves Catholics in Palayan City, the capital of Nueva Ecija since 1965. Congress created the city as one of the country's seven planned cities, and Divine Mercy Chapel is one of its neighborhood places of worship.
The submerged remains of the old town of Pantabangan, which was flooded on purpose in the 1970s to fill the reservoir behind Pantabangan Dam. The settlement was established in 1645 and stood for nearly 300 years before it went under. …
The city's main Catholic church, at Plaza Naning in the town centre. The Augustinians set up the parish in 1733, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts declared the building an important cultural property in 2026. The Good …
The city's first parish church, standing on the town plaza. Its patron is Saint Francis of Assisi, and the town carried his name too, as San Francisco de Malabon, until it was renamed. The church is under the Diocese of …
A working lighthouse on the coast at Lobo, completed and lit in 1896. It is one of the oldest working lighthouses in the Philippines and the best preserved in the country. The light still guides ships through the Verde Island …
This parish church in Ilagan City takes its name from Saint Ferdinand, the saint it is dedicated to.
An eco-tourism park built around the old Tabacalera warehouse, the Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas of the Spanish period. Cauayan was tobacco land, and the company began supplying the Spanish government's tobacco monopoly in 1881. Museo San Luis, inside …
A Roman Catholic church built in 1624 and now a ruin. It is the oldest church in Isabela. The Second World War damaged it and a magnitude 7 earthquake brought it down in 1949. Fire took the roof in the …
The park in the middle of downtown, laid out in a Japanese theme with acacia trees and a large spurting fountain at the center. The fountain was later replaced by a skating rink. At Christmas the acacia trees are lit …
A museum on the island's peoples and natural history, beside the city baywalk.
A science museum with more than 250 exhibits, on a lot of 1.2 hectares in J. Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City. It opened on March 16, 2012, and the Bonifacio Art Foundation built it. Five galleries fill 4,900 …
A military cemetery for the United States personnel killed in the Philippines in the Second World War, and for the dead of other allied nations. The American Battle Monuments Commission manages it. It sits at the northeast end of Lawton …
A museum built around El Deposito, an underground water reservoir that the Spanish authorities finished in 1882 to supply Manila and the towns around it. The reservoir held 15 million gallons and was part of the Carriedo water system, which …
A national shrine and park on Pinaglabanan Street, for the Katipuneros who laid siege to the Almacen de Polvorin, a Spanish colonial armoury. That fight was the first battle of the Philippine Revolution against Spain. The park went up in …
A waterfront park facing Manila Bay, the largest open space in the city and the northern answer to the Baywalk. People jog, stroll and skate along it, between the R-10 Bridge and the Navotas Bus Terminal, past bleachers, lamp posts …