Heritage Sites

Discover Philippine UNESCO World Heritage sites and other places of outstanding cultural and natural value.

Category

AllCulturalNaturalReligiousLandscapeMixed

Region

AllCordilleraIlocos RegionMIMAROPAWestern Visayas
Facade of Miagao Church under a clear skyUNESCO

Iloilo · Western Visayas

Miagao Church

A fortress church and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iloilo, famed for its botanical bas-relief facade.

Coral stone facade of Molo ChurchReligious

Iloilo · Western Visayas

Molo Church

Gothic-Renaissance coral stone church in Iloilo City, known as the “feminist church” for its all-female saint statues.

Jaro Cathedral and plaza at golden hourReligious

Iloilo · Western Visayas

Jaro Cathedral

Seat of the Archdiocese of Jaro and shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria.

Cascading green rice terraces in misty mountainsUNESCO

Ifugao · Cordillera

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

Living cultural landscape of highland rice terraces shaped over two millennia.

Colonial cobblestone street lined with ancestral houses in ViganUNESCO

Ilocos Sur · Ilocos Region

Historic City of Vigan

Best-preserved Spanish colonial town in Asia, with cobblestone streets and ancestral houses.

Colorful coral reef in clear turquoise waterUNESCO

Palawan · MIMAROPA

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Remote UNESCO marine sanctuary in the Sulu Sea with extraordinary coral and wildlife diversity.

Limestone cave river entrance in a jungle settingUNESCO

Palawan · MIMAROPA

Puerto Princesa Underground River

Spectacular limestone cave river system within a protected rainforest watershed.