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PHILIPPINE LAW ON CONSERVATION,

PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF
ARCHITECTURE

What is Conservation?  What is preservation?

The act or an instance of conserving or To keep in perfect or unaltered
keeping from change, loss, injury, etc. condition; maintain unchanged.

What is restoration?
The action of returning something to a
former condition, owner or place
LAWS
Presidential Decree No. 1505
Amending the presidential
Decree No. 260, as amended, by
prohibiting the unauthorised
modification, alteration, repair
and destruction of original
features of all national shrines,
monuments, landmarks and
other important historic edifice
- Any person who shall violate
this Decree shall, upon
conviction, be punished by
imprisonment for not less than
one year nor more than five
years or a fine of not less than
one thousand pesos nor more
than ten thousand pesos or
both, at the discretion of the
court or tribunal concerned
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What is cultural Heritage?
Cultural heritage is the legacy of
physical artefacts and intangible
attributes of a group or society that are
inherited from past generations,
maintained in the present and
bestowed for the benefit of future
generations.
Republic Act No. 4846
An act to repel Act No. 3874 and to provide for the protection and preservation of
Philippine Cultural properties (as amended by P.D. 374)
This Act shall be Known as the “Cultural Properties Preservation and Protection
Act”
Cultural Properties are old buildings, monuments, shrines, documents, and objects
which may be classified as antiques, relics, or artefacts, landmarks,
anthropological and historical sites, and specimen of natural history which are of
cultural, historical, anthropological or scientific value and significance to the
nation; such as physical, and anthropological materials, meteorites and tektites;
historical objects and manuscripts; house and agricultural implements, decorative
articles or personal adornment; works of art such as paintings, sculptures or
carvings, jewellery, music, architecture, sketches drawings or illustrations in part
or in whole; works of industrial and commercial art such as furniture, pottery,
ceramics, wrought iron, gold, bronze, silver, wood and other heraldic items,
metals, coins, medals, badges, insignias, coat of arms, crests, flags, arms, and
armour, vehicles or ships or boats in part or in whole etc.
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LAWS
Republic Act No. 10066
b. Establish cultural workers and ensure their
An Act providing for the protection and professional development and well-being.
conservation of the national cultural heritage,
strengthening the National Commission for Penal Provisions – Upon conviction, the offender
Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and its affiliated shall be subject to a fine of not less than Two
cultural agencies, and for other purposes. hundred thousand pesos (200,000.00) or
imprisonment for a term of not less than ten (10)
Short Title – This Act shall be known as the years, or both, upon the discretion of the court.
“National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009”
In the Pursuit of cultural preservation as a
strategy for maintaining Filipino identity, this
Act shall pursue the following objectives:
a. Protect, preserve, conserve and promote
the nation’s cultural heritage, its property and
histories, and the ethnicity of local
communities;

CULTURAL PROPERTY
Categories – the cultural property of the
country shall be categorized as follows:
a. National cultural treasures
b. Important cultural property
c. National Historical Shrine
d. National Historical landmark
e. National Historical monument; and
f. World Heritage Sites
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NATIONAL CULTURAL TREASURES

Puente de Malagonlong – declared historical
site by the National Historical Institute,
Malagonlong is a 445 foot-long bridge built in
1840. it was the longest bridge ever made during
the Spanish colonial era with approximately
100,000 adobe blocks used. 155 years after its
construction, the bridge remains a testimony to
the excellent stone arch bridge craftsmanship
that was its foundation.

NATIONAL CULTURAL TREASURES

Tabon Caves – the Tabon Cave complex is
located on Lipuun Point Quezon, Palawan. It
is a 138-hectares, of rugged cliffs and deep
slopes. Discovered by an American, the late
Dr. Robert B. Fox and his team of
Archeologist from the National Museum in
1962. The discovery found here is known as
Taong Tabon.
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NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY

Barong Tagalog – is an embroidered formal shirt from the Philippines. It is very
lightweight and worn untucked (similar to a coat/dress shirt) over an undershirt . The
term “Barong Tagalog” literally means a “Tagalog Dress” in he Tagalog language; the
Tagalog refers to the Ethnic group’s traditional homeland in central ad southern Luzon,
and not their language

NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY

The Blood Compact – an award

winning 1886 “historic and historical”
painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna
The Blood compact portrays the 1565
Sandugo (blood compact ritual)
between Rajah Sikatuna of Bohol and
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and his
fellow conquistadores.
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NATIONAL HISTORICAL SHRINE

Aguinaldo Shrine – the national Shrine

located in Kawit, Cavite in the Republic of
the Philippines, where the independence
of the Philippines from Spain was declared
on June 12, 1998. Aguinaldo’s house is a
mansion over 14,000 square feet (1,300 sq.
meters) in floor area designed by
Aguinaldo himself.
The house, which features secret passages
and hiding places for documents and
weapons, showcases how the
revolutionary zeal infused even the
comfort of a Filipino home.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK

Magellans Cross
Is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese,
and Spanish explorers as ordered by
Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu
in the Philippines on (depending on source)
March 31, 1521
A sign below the cross describes the
original cross is encased inside the wooden
cross that is found in the center chapel.
This is to protect the original cross from
people who chipped away parts of the
cross for souvenirs purposes or in the belief
that the cross possesses miraculous
powers
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NATIONAL HISTORICAL MONUMENT

Rizal Monument
A memorial monument in Rizal Park in
Manila built to commemorate the
Filipino nationalist, Jose Rizal
The mausoleum consists of a standing
bronze sculpture of the martyr, with an
obelisk as his backdrop, set on a
pedestal upon which his remains are
interred.

WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE

PHILIPPINES
A site, area, or structure recognized as
being of outstanding international
importance and therefore as deserving
special protection. Sites are nominated
to designate by the World Heritage
Convention (an organization of
UNESCO)
Two Kinds:
1. Natural
2. Man-made
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NATURAL

Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park, South

Sulu Sea, Palawan
The UNESCO World Heritage cited
Tubbataha Reef as one of the most
outstanding coral reefs in Southeast Asia,
noting that in the 33,200 hectares of the
Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park lies an
atoll reef with a very high density of marine
species, a phenomenon unique in the world
and a site of irreplaceable universal value.
“Tubbataha” derives from two Samal words
meaning “a long reef exposed only at low
tide”

MAN-MADE

Banaue Rice Terraces

High in the remote areas of the Philippine
Cordillera mountain range, scholars believe,
slopes have been terraces and planted with
rice as far back as 2,000 years. Mountains
terraced into paddies that still survive in
varying states of conservation are spread
over most of the 20,000 square-kilometer
land area. The improbable site is found at
altitudes varying from 700 to 1,500 meters
above sea level, where terraces are sliced
into mountain slopes with contours that rise
steeply. Most Filipinos regard the terraces
as their greatest national symbol.
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SANTO TOMAS DE VILLANUEVA CHURCH

IN MIAG-AO ILOILO
Built of local yellow-orange sandstone, the
large fortress-church was completed in
1797. the church withstood typhoons and
earthquakes, but it burned twice: first was
during the revolution against Spain in 1890
and the second was during the Philippine-
American War a few years later. It is among
the best examples in the “fortress Baroque”
style.

HISTORIC CITY OF VIGAN

It is a World Heritage Site in that it is one of

the few Hispanic towns left in the
Philippines where its structures remained
intact, and well known for its cobblestone
streets, and a unique architecture that fuses
Philippine and Oriental building designs and
construction, with colonial European
architecture.