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This chapel, designed by Archbishop Norman Campus, is notable for its extensive shellwork. It features Leticia Sia Ledesma’s Barangay Sang Birhen ("Village of the Virgin"), a mosaic made from 95,000 shells, as well as other shell-made images of saints, Stations …
This relatively new church is dedicated to St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes. It is notable for its richly decorated, gold-toned Baroque-style altar, ceiling mural, and Divine Mercy shrine.
Constructed by the natives in 1660 under the supervision and control of Franciscan Missionaries.
One of Bayawan City's waterfalls, Niludhan Falls, lies in Negros Oriental. Local tourism listings group it with two other named waterfalls, Banay-Banay Falls and Lourdes Falls, as some of the city's outdoor sights.
The downtown plaza, officially Plaza del 6 de Noviembre, named for the day the Spanish handed Negros Island over to the Negros revolutionaries. It is trapezoidal, with a belt of trees around the edge, four circular fountains among the trees …
A parish church first built in 1704 and named for the Assumption of Our Lady. In 1860 it was enlarged with a transept and ringed with a wall and watchtowers, as a defence against pirates. It came through the tidal …
A lake of 40 hectares in the town of San Miguel, with forest land around it. It lies about 230 metres above sea level, and only Lake Wood is a larger mountain lake in the province.
A low-lying island in the Sulu Sea with white coral-sand beaches, known locally as Pulo Baliudyong. It measures more than 500 metres across at its widest point and sits on an oval reef about 1.6 kilometres long. The island lies …
A stone and wooden church built in the Spanish period to serve as the mission station for the eastern side of Mindanao. The Jesuits took the parish over from the Augustinian Recollects in 1871 and began the building in 1877. …
Off the coast of the municipality of Sarangani lies an island named Sarangani Island, within Davao Occidental province.
A man-made lake with a boat tour and a floating cottage on the water, used for picnics and for fishing.
A small island in the Sulu Archipelago, off Sapa-Sapa, with what counts as the longest sandbar in the Philippines: the bar runs 3,128.37 metres. The island itself covers only 0.1 square kilometres and sits inside Basibuli Shoal. The beach is …
A cave system inside the city proper, at the foot of Pedro Colina Hill. It gave the city its name: kuta means fort and wato means stone, so Kutawato is the fort of stone. Hidden passageways run underground, and one …
A diocesan shrine to Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, Our Lady of the Abandoned, and the oldest church in the Marikina Valley, built in 1572. Its image of the Madonna and Child is venerated as miraculous and has a pontifical …
The burial place of Gregorio Aglipay, in a complex that also holds the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Philippine Independent Church. Aglipay (1860 to 1940) was a Catholic priest who served as military chaplain during the Philippine Revolution of …
This diocesan shrine and parish serves Catholics in Olongapo, a highly urbanized city grouped with Zambales province though it governs itself. Olongapo grew up around a Spanish and later American naval station on Subic Bay, and the shrine is one …
A parish church stands in Palayan City, the least populated city in the Philippines according to the 2024 census. The city takes its name from the Tagalog word for rice paddy, chosen to reflect Nueva Ecija's title as the country's …
The city museum and library, in the old municipal hall on Cagayan Valley Road, 150 metres from Saint Augustine Church. It opened in 1998 as a museum of natural history and ethnography, and the city runs it as the centre …
A protected forest in the mountainous interior of northern Bataan. People come to watch birds and wildlife and to trek to the peaks and waterfalls inside it. Pasukulan Falls and Dunsulan Falls are both here, along with ground orchids and …
A protected area in the Sierra Madre mountain range, on the boundary between Aurora and Nueva Ecija. It covers 5,676 hectares and stretches more than 50 kilometres along the Bongabon-Baler road, rising to 1,000 metres. The forest is mostly lowland …
A mountain of 2,310 metres on the border of Benguet and Mountain Province, about 100 kilometres north of Baguio and reached from the Halsema Highway. Pine forest and mossy oak forest cover the slopes. It has been a national park …
The first parish church of the city, built in stone soon after Dasmariñas became a separate parish in 1866. The church and its convent saw bloodshed during the Battle of Perez Dasmariñas, in the revolution against Spain. Queen Isabella II …
A gravity dam on the Zapote River, built by hand in the 19th century to water the rice fields of Bacoor and Las Piñas. It sits on the city boundary, between Barangay San Nicolas I in Bacoor and Barangay Talon …
An 18th-century Baroque church in Barangay Dopaj, and a National Cultural Treasure since July 2001. The National Museum listed the whole complex, not the church alone. Saint Vincent Ferrer is the patron, and people here call it Dupax Church. Father …
A small island in the Visayan Sea ringed by white sand beaches, with three sandbars. It covers about 0.03 square kilometres, and the 833 people who live on it mostly depend on fishing. The island lies 8 kilometres southwest of …
The city's parish church, and a National Historic Landmark since August 1, 1973 under Presidential Decree 260. Work on the present building started in 1750. The Franciscans founded the parish under Saint John the Baptist, and it became independent in …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Zamboanga City guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Tayabas guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's San Jose (Mindoro) guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check …