Vigan Heritage Site — Local services in Vigan

A treasure! Time travel in this Spanish colonial architecture. The vintage site lets you walk on the cobblestone freely and take photos or videos as you want. If you want good photos, you can also come in the morning because the glare from the street lamps can get in the way at night. It was tough to get decent photos at night unless you have a super good camera. In this place, the old and the new merges into an extraordinary experience of the lifetime.

The evening here is different from the morning hussle and buzz of the regular street. There wasn't any night market besides religious items, flowers, and a few souvenir shops open. Since it rained that night, the sought-after Dancing Fountain light show at the Plaza Salcedo was cancelled. Perhaps due to the pandemic, most shops and restaurants along the roads were closed.

At the start of your drop-off, there's the old Maybank and some old office near the church. Walk further to find a statue for some background on an important person behind this site. It really feels like a normal street open to vehicles, and yet extraordinary too with all that cobblestone and walking.

Calle Crisologo is the most famous street here, we walked it from end to end.

If you know Philippine history, you'd easily recognize the Calle Mabini on the side as one named after Apolonario Mabini. And there were several others like Calle Luna, and so on that you'd pass through.

If you're up for it, take the romantic, single horse-drawn carriage, locally called kalesa, a ride for only 200 pesos and fits two people at the center and one person beside the coach driver. It goes for 10 minutes around the site. But it's bumpy and can be fast that you need a more proper video camera besides your phone to take videos. When we came, there was only one operational kalesa ride, you can imagine how long we waited for our turn!

There are sides well-preserved and other sides that seemed like they came out of some ruins or the end of World War II feel. I hope they put some good budget and restore these other parts of the street before they fall apart.

Coming here in Vigan is most nostalgic and it feels like an introduction to Europe's classic streets as if you're watching Princess Sara or some time-period drama.

If you want food, there was one restaurant with outdoor dining that was open near where the Kalesa ride line was. But we didn't have the time to try them as it...

Calle Crisologo is a street in Vigan and a historical site where you can see houses built during the spanish era. So if you want to go back in time and relive those moments you just have to pack your bag and head to Vigan, Ilocos Sur.

Calle Crisologo is also known as the Mena Crisologo street. It got its name from one of the most respected sons in Ilocos; Mena Pecson Crisologo who wrote the ilocano version of Don Quixote and another writing which is in comparison to Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere.

It is a street with old houses where the rich people from the Spanish era used to live. Now, there are souvenir shops, museums and old houses that were converted to inns or restaurants. There are calesas too so you can tour Vigan the old-fashioned way. The place is picturesque. Some say it is also a good time to go at night because of the lamp posts. It gives you the feel that you are bein transported back in time in a more romantic way.

We went here during the summer season so the place is scorching hot and there are lots of tourist too. You need to have a bottled water or an energy drink with you to keep yourself from dehydration and headache. However, there are ice cream vendors or dirty icecreams that are bein sold to keep your head cool. Lol.

If you get hungry, there is a place full of eateries, stalls near the church where they sell local cuisines and their famous ilocos empanada. Not a fan of it tho, except for the ones that are being sold at one of the stalls at the grocery store of Market Market. Haha. It is way better than the authentic ilocos empanada. Haha. There are fast food restaurants in the area too if you don't want to eat at an eatery or you can also try the restaurants in one of the houses.

If you want to visit the place I suggest you visit it during "ber" months to avoid the...

The City of Vigan, is a 4th class component city and capital of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. the place is recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site and it is one of the few towns left in the Philippines whose old structures have mostly remained intact, and it is well known for its sett pavements and a unique architecture of the Philippine colonial era which fuses Native Philippine and Oriental building designs and construction, with colonial Spanish architecture that is still abundant in the area there are plenty locations to visit for a full day visit to VIGAN. if you have time better spend more than a day, then you can cover most of the places. the place is Located on the western coast of the large island of Luzon, facing the South China Sea.

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