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PART 3 – CULTURAL AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION

UNESCO Heritage Sites in the Philippines

1. Baroque Churches in the Philippines

2. Tubattaha Reefs National Park

3. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

4. Historic City of Vigan

5. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

6. Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary

The _ also known as The Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín was the first church built on the island of Luzon in 1571, immediately after the Spanish conquest of Manila. A site within the district of Intramuros was assigned to the Augustinian Order, the first to evangelize in the Philippines.

San Agustin Church Manila

SAN AUGUSTIN CHURCH IN MANILA

commonly known as the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, is located in the municipality of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur. Unlike other town churches in the Philippines, which conform to the Spanish tradition of sitting them on the central plaza, IT IS with its convento are on a hill surrounded by a defensive wall.

The Santa Maria Church

The Paoay Church, also known as the Church of San Agustín,

is located in Paoay, Ilocos Norte. It is the most outstanding example in the Philippines of an Earthquake Baroque style architecture. Fourteen buttresses are ranged along the lines of a giant volute supporting a smaller one and surmounted by pyramidal finials. The massive coral stone bell tower, which was added half a century after the church was completed, stands at some distance from the church, again as a protection against damage during earthquakes.