Heritage in Pampanga

Facade and belfry of the Hacienda Dolores Chapel in Porac

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Hacienda Dolores Chapel (Virgen Dolores Chapel)

Spanish-era barangay chapel of 1838 on the Porac Access Road, repaired after the 2019 earthquake.

Porac

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Pio Chapel (San Vicente Ferrer Chapel)

The first known circular chapel in the Philippines, built in 1861 in Barangay Pio and repaired by residents after Pinatubo and the 2019 quake.

Porac

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General Jose Alejandrino Monument

Monument to Arayat's hero General Jose Alejandrino, propagandist and later senator and Pampanga governor, at the town hall.

Arayat

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Felix Galura Memorial, Bacolor

1924 memorial to Felix Napao Galura, a beloved son of Bacolor, opposite the school that stands on the old Casa Real site.

Bacolor

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Chapel of the Holy Guardian Angel

Holy Angel University's white contemporary chapel, home to an 1830 image of the Guardian Angel commissioned by the city's founder.

Angeles

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Holy Family Academy Building, Angeles

Former convent that served as a US Army hospital in 1900 and Japanese barracks and arsenal in 1942, now a school building.

Angeles

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Deposito (Old Angeles Post Office Building)

1899 building on Arayat Boulevard built to store church statues and carriages, later a US Army jail and the Angeles post office.

Angeles

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Bale Herencia

Picturesque 1860 house in the Santo Rosario district, now leased to small shops and eateries with its old architecture intact.

Angeles

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Camalig, Angeles

1840 rice granary of the first gobernadorcillo of Angeles, restored in 1980 and home to the Camalig restaurant.

Angeles

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Founders' Residence (Bale Matua), Angeles

The oldest building in Angeles, built in 1824 by the city's founder Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda, now known as Bale Matua.

Angeles

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Monumento Fernandino

2004 monument to San Fernando's people and trades: a lantern girl, a torch bearer and a boatman.

San Fernando

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Heroes Park, San Fernando

Park on Lazatin Boulevard with statues of Filipino heroes, many of them born in Pampanga, open 6am to 6pm.

San Fernando

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Pampanga Provincial Capitol

American-era neoclassical building on Capitol Boulevard, seat of Pampanga's provincial government, next to Arnedo Park.

San Fernando

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San Fernando Heritage District

Two blocks of Consunji Street lined with some of San Fernando's last colonial-era mansions, part of a district of 32 historic structures.

San Fernando

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San Fernando Train Station (Death March Marker)

Restored 1892 railway station where the Bataan Death March ended, with a preserved wooden boxcar of the wartime death trains.

San Fernando

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Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando

Seat of the Archdiocese of San Fernando, founded in 1754, burned in 1899 and 1939 and rebuilt by architect Fernando Ocampo.

San Fernando

Facade of the Santa Catalina de Alejandria Church in Porac

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Santa Catalina de Alejandria Church, Porac

Porac's Baroque parish church from 1872, damaged in the war and restored in the 1980s, its belfry shortened by the 2019 earthquake.

Porac

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Samia-Santos House and Santa Martina Chapel

Colonial-era Samia-Santos residence, known locally as Bahay Antigo, facing the Spanish-era Santa Martina Chapel.

Arayat

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Medina Ancestral House, Arayat

Spanish-era private residence from 1840 on P. Tan Street, also called the Calo-Medina house.

Arayat

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Santa Catalina Parish Church, Arayat

Arayat's 1753 Renaissance-style church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 70 metres long, with an arcaded upper facade.

Arayat

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Maximino Hizon Monument

Monument to General Maximino Hizon, Mexico's revolutionary hero who died in exile in Guam in 1901.

Mexico

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Bale Mi (Sandico Ancestral House)

The Sandico family's 1827 colonial house in Parian, now an events venue open Monday to Saturday.

Mexico

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Rivera-Panlilio Ancestral House

Spanish-era ancestral house on Arayat Road in Mexico's Parian, home of the Rivera and Panlilio families.

Mexico

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Lazatin-Henson-Katigbak Mansion

Spanish-era mansion of one of Pampanga's elite families on 2nd Street in Mexico's Parian district.

Mexico