INTRODUCTION

• To date UNESCO world Heritage List includes 890 properties forming part of
the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee
considers as having outstanding universal value.
• These includes 689 cultural, 176 natural and 25 mixed properties in 148
State Parties.
WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE PHILIPPINES
 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE PHILIPPINES

Historic Town of Vigan Baroque Churches of the

(1999) Philippines (1993)

Rice Terraces of the

Tubbataha Reef Marine
Philippine Cordilleras (1995)Puerto Princesa
Park (1993)
Subterranean River
National Park (1999)
 I. NATURAL HERITAGE
Tubbataha Reef Marine Park (1993) Chocolate Hills, Bohol

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

(1995)
Mayon Volcano in Albay

Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National

Park (1999)
 II. CULTURAL HERITAGE
San Pedro Apostol Parish
Nuestra Señora del Patrocinio
Church
de Maria Parish Church

San Isidro Labrador

Immaculate
Parish Church
Conception Parish
San Matias Parish Church
Church
Fire Mummies Callao Cave

Angono Petroglyphs

Tabon Caves
What is Heritage?
Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future
generations.
-World Heritage Commission UNESCO
It is the “the cultivation of cultural patrimony”
-Christopher Tunnard
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
Culture
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
Natural Heritage
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
Man-made- built Heritage