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Vigan

Ilocos Sur, Vigan - a sleepy colonial-era town located on the west coast of Luzon, it is a place where past meets the present. Once called "a peice of Spain in the Orient" this locate evokes a feeling of life in 18th-century Philippines with cobbled streets, antiques and clip-clopping calesas.

Vigan was inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List in November 1999. Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia. Its architecture reflects the coming together of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines and from China with those from Europe to create a unique culture and townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia. Its Kamestizoan District is replete with ancestral houses with ancient tiled roofs, massive hardwood floorings, ballustrades and azoteas in varying Spanish-Mexican-Chinese architectural styles.