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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 …
The palm-lined road across the island, and the deck looking over a million coconut trees.
A museum on the island's peoples and natural history, beside the city baywalk.
The Bayawan Nature Reserve is a natural area within Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. It is one of the outdoor sites the city names in its own tourism listing, next to its coastal boulevard and city plaza.
A three story convention center in Mandaue City, the Cebu International Convention Center was built by the Cebu provincial government to host the 12th ASEAN Summit and the 2nd East Asia Summit. The center sits on 3.8 hectares in the …
A 220 hectare mangrove forest grown on what used to be the muddy shoreline of Barangay New Buswang. A bamboo trail of 1.3 kilometres takes you deep into the trees, past a watchtower, picnic huts, a souvenir shop and a …
The largest sugar refinery in the country, and the largest integrated sugar mill in the world. Its compound covers 7,000 hectares, with the Saint Joseph the Worker Chapel standing inside it. The city is 34 kilometres from Bacolod. Don Miguel …
A white sand island resort about three kilometres off the coast of Barangay Cadiz Viejo. It is popular with local visitors. The island covers 13 hectares, is shaped like a banana, and lies 48 kilometres north of Bacolod. The name …
The city's Catholic parish church, named for Saint John the Baptist. An Augustinian priest, Gerónimo Marín, celebrated the saint's feast in the settlement in the 1570s, and the people later accepted him as the patron saint of the place. His …
A lake in the hills above the city, shaped like a violin and 3 kilometres long, at 640 metres above sea level. Floating cottages sit on the water and boats are for hire. The water covers 148 hectares inside Lake …
An 18th-century church that the National Museum of the Philippines lists as a National Cultural Treasure. Its full name is Immaculate Conception Parish Church. It was nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage list under two headings, the Baroque Churches of …
The public market and the Rotunda beside it, where the town sells the food it is known for. The best known is Carcar chicharon, and the stalls also carry lechon, ampao, bucarillo, gorgorias and puso.
A small coral island off the coast of Bogo, protected as a marine sanctuary. It is uninhabited and about 600 hectares in size, 6.1 kilometres east of Barangay Odlot in the Camotes Sea. Divers come for three sites: Ormoc Shoal, …
A dive site on a small limestone island in the Tañon Strait, a few kilometres off the west coast of Cebu. The reef starts as a sandy slope with soft coral at 5 to 10 metres, then falls away as …
An island with white sand beaches off Ipil, the capital and largest town of the province.
An ancestral house in Dapitan that now works as a heritage museum, known as the Balay Hamoy Museum. The display covers the exile of Jose Rizal in the town, from 1892 to 1896. Mariano Hamoy built the house in 1893. …
The oldest mosque in the Zamboanga Peninsula, built by Hadji Abdullah Maas Nuno in 1885. In Tausug it is the Masjid sin Taluksangay. The village of Taluksangay around it was the first centre of Islamic teaching in the peninsula, and …
A 2.5 hectare sanctuary where egrets and herons nest. The city holds the Sultan Kudarat Bird Festival there, and the eighth one ran on 10 and 11 May 2024.
A waterfall with no river above it: the water comes out of crevices in a cliff 60 metres high, and the source is thought to be an underground river. Ferns and moss cover most of the rock. The pool at …
A stone fort from 1756, built by Father José Ducos to hold the coast against pirates who carried people off as slaves, and known locally as the Cotta. It is square, with four bastions and one side facing Panguil Bay, …
The main tourist attraction of the province: a waterfall on the Agus River at the village of Robocon, and one of the two outlets of Lake Lanao. Tinago means hidden, and the falls stand hidden in a deep ravine. The …
The city's central park, also called the Golden Friendship Park: six island sections of trees and benches between two tree-lined streets, by the Cagayan River. It began in the town centre in the early 20th century as a fire break …
A mountain of rock formations and caves, 18 kilometres south of the city proper in Barangay Managok. It is known as an evacuation area in the Second World War. Trekkers and climbers go up for the view from the top, …
The provincial museum of Davao Oriental, with exhibits about the province. Its full name is the Subangan Davao Oriental Provincial Museum. The centrepiece is Davor, the skeleton of a sperm whale 16.15 metres long that beached in Governor Generoso. It …
The city's grand mosque, also called the Islamic Center of Marawi, and the biggest Islamic place of worship in the country: it holds 20,000 worshippers. It stands in Pangarungan Village. The site's landowner, Datu Pangarungan Disalongan, led the first phase …
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 …