About Vigan. Founded in 1572 by Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo, Vigan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site is known for its ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

Roughly 250 miles north of the capital Manila, Vigan is a small, charming city in the northern Philippines. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has survived a plethora of challenges within the ...

The Historic Town of Vigan (Philippines), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999, has been recognized as a model of best practices in World Heritage site management, at the occasion of the 40 th ...

Unfortunately, the magnitude 7 earthquake of July 27, 2022 damaged many of its heritage buildings, including heritage houses, the Vigan Cathedral and belfry, Archbishop’s Palace and Colegio ...

The findings of the two pilot sites assessments will be shared with the local government, the ancestral homeowners and the Vigan Conservation Council through a series of lectures, training-workshops ...

Vigan City's historical center called the heritage village is listed as one of the UNESCO's world heritage sites since December 1999 for its well-preserved monumental buildings. The National Museum of ...

Vigan was inscribed on Dec. 2, 1999 for its 630 cultural and natural properties of exceptional value in the entire world; it is one of only five heritage sites found in the Philippines.

Vigan sets cobblestones in entire UNESCO heritage site. May 3, 2018 9:30 AM PHT. Frank ... But now Vigan is embarking on an ambitious plan to lay out cobblestones on the former Ciudad ...