Bantayan Heritage District

Bantayan Heritage District covers the historic core of Bantayan town, where Spanish-era ancestral houses and stone buildings still line the streets around Sts. Peter and Paul Church. The church itself is built from quarried coral stone bound with lime mortar, a construction method common to Visayan garrison towns that faced regular Moro raids through the Spanish period — thick, fortress-grade walls that also happen to have outlasted centuries of typhoons. The surrounding houses carry the same era’s woodwork and capiz-shell windows, giving the district a coherent, unbroken streetscape rather than a scattering of isolated landmarks.

• Sts. Peter and Paul Church: one of the older coral-stone parishes in the Visayas, its walls built thick enough to double as a refuge during raids.
• Ancestral homes: original wood joinery and capiz-shell windows, still intact on several blocks near the plaza.
• Town plaza: the market stalls here sell budbud and dried fish alongside the usual produce, standard Visayan plaza fare, not staged for visitors.

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