Iloilo Part 1

Pride of Janiuay

The Janiuay Catholic Church was built of sandstone, lime stone and layered bricks and was completed in February 1770.

The Janiuay Gothic Cemetery. was built in 1870, and is also walled with ancient sandstone and bricks.

Cabatuan

Cabatuan Town Plaza arch, patterned from that of banana leaves.

San Nicholas de Tolentino Parish Church in Cabatuan, built in 1834, is a Tuscanic church.

This century old Spanish-Filipino Cemetery is the only cemetery in the Philippines which is a perfect square.

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Plaza.

The Parish of Sta. Barbara, a Baroque Rennaisance architecture, was built in 1845 and was completed 33 years later, and declared by the National Historical Institute as a national historic landmark.

Inspiration of Pavia

The Sta. Monica Parish Church in Pavia, Iloilo,nis a century-old church made of red bricks.

Jaro

Jaro Cathedral Belfry, located opposite of the Cathedral.

The Parish of Our Lady of Candles (Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria)

Ceiling of Jaro Cathedral.

 The Parish of Our Lady of Candles also known as the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral.

The site of a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary, which was canonically crowned by the late Pope John Paul II.

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