Intramuros
The walled Spanish city of 1571, with Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church and a walk along the ramparts. The district covers 0.67 square kilometres and is enclosed on every side by its fortifications. It was the seat of the Spanish …
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Hanging coffins of Echo Valley
Coffins fixed to the cliff face, an Igorot burial practice still used occasionally. Visited with a local guide. People have been buried this way around Sagada for more than 2,000 years. The old carve their own coffin out of a …
Batad Rice Terraces
An amphitheatre of stone-walled terraces, part of the UNESCO listing, reached by a hike from the saddle. Batad and Bangaan are the two clusters in Banaue that the World Heritage inscription covers. People here call the Ifugao terraces the Eighth …
Cagsawa Ruins
The bell tower left standing after the 1814 eruption buried the church, and the classic view of Mayon behind it. The Franciscans built the first church here in 1587, in the town of Cagsawa. Dutch pirates burned it in 1636, …
Nagacadan Rice Terraces
A cluster of rice terraces at Kiangan, on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The fields climb in rows up a valley that a river cuts in two, which sets this cluster apart from the others in the province. Rice is …
Hofileña Ancestral House
A family home on Cinco de Noviembre Street, built by Manuel Severino Hofileña for his wife Gilda Ledesma Hojilla, a former Miss Silay, and for their nine children. Ramon Hofileña, one of the children, lived here until recently and took …
Tana Dicang House
A house in the Spanish colonial bahay na bato style, built in 1872, with a ground floor of stone and an upper floor of wood. It belonged to the Lizares family and carries the name of its first owner, Enrica …
Mercado Mansion
A two-storey bahay na bato painted Mediterranean blue, one of the heritage houses of Carcar. The ground floor may date from the 1880s. Don Mariano Mercado, the American-era mayor of the town, added the hardwood second floor in 1906 to …
Carlos P. Garcia Heritage House
A president of the Philippines lived here: Carlos P. Garcia built the house in 1953 and 1954, on the lot of the older Jorolan house, and kept it as his provincial home. He came from Talibon, on the far side …
Pamintuan Mansion
A heritage house from the 1880s, built by the Pamintuan family and kept as a museum of history and social studies. Aguinaldo waved the Philippine flag from the second-floor balcony here on 12 June 1899, the first anniversary of the …
Angono Petroglyphs
Carvings of 127 human and animal figures, cut into a rock wall on the boundary between Angono and Binangonan. They are the oldest known work of art in the country, probably carved in the Late Neolithic, before 2000 BC. The …
Biliran Watchtower
A coastal watchtower put up in 1765 to watch for Muslim raiding boats. The Filipino priest Gaspar Ignacio de Guevara started the work. In 1774 the raiders came anyway, attacked the settlement and burned it, tower included. The ruin was …
Glan
A town of colonial roads and well-preserved ancestral houses that the National Commission for Culture and the Arts counts as a heritage town. It lies east of Sarangani Bay and north of the Celebes Sea, and it is the most …
Pelaez Ancestral House
The white ancestral home of two Pelaez politicians: Don Gregorio Pelaez Senior, the first governor of Misamis Oriental, and his son Emmanuel Pelaez, elected Vice President in 1961. It stands in North Poblacion in Medina, in the eastern part of …
Lumang Gapan
A recreation of the heritage houses of Vigan, built as a visitor site and known here as Little Vigan.
Old Provincial Capitol of Nueva Ecija
A neoclassical government building of 1912, set in park-like grounds of the American colonial period. The American architect William E. Parsons designed it, the same architect behind the Manila Hotel and the Gabaldon school buildings. Later work renovated and enlarged …
Vega Ancestral House
A bahay na bato about 200 years old, in Población, Balingasag. Carved wooden figures hold up the overhang of the second floor. They are called otí-ot in Visayan and look like the Greek Atlas or the caryatids. There are three …
Sunken Cemetery
A cemetery under the sea off Catarman, which went down when Mount Vulcan erupted on 1 May 1871. The graves belonged to the old settlement of Bonbon. A white concrete cross, put up by the provincial government in 1982, marks …
Bahay na Tisa
The oldest building still standing in Pasig, a historic house whose name means house of clay tiles. Don Cecilio Tech y Cabrera built it in 1846 and it came through the Second World War. Under martial law it was known …
Sideco House
An ancestral house close to the Pampanga River that served as the headquarters of the First Philippine Republic in 1899. Aguinaldo proclaimed San Isidro the capital of the country on 29 March that year and used this house, owned by …
Casa Comunidad de Tayabas
A guesthouse built in 1831 for visiting Spanish officials, which later held the town prison and the tribunal. Apolinario Dela Cruz, known as Hermano Pule, was tried in this building and sentenced to death in 1841. Fire destroyed it in …
Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery
Spanish-era Catholic burial ground with a crypt below it, built in 1845 under the Franciscan priest Vicente Velloc. The crypt was meant for Spanish Franciscan friars, for leading townspeople and for members of elite Catholic families. It is the only …
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