Cebu City
Seat of the Archdiocese of Cebu, rebuilt from its wartime ruins
The cathedral of the oldest diocese in the Philippines. The present building was finished in the 1930s and gutted by bombing during the Second World War; the facade and belfry survived and the rest was rebuilt around them in the 1950s.
The trompe-l'œil ceiling and the heavy coral-stone frontage are the things most visitors photograph. It is a working cathedral rather than a monument, so services run throughout the day.
Two blocks north of Magellan's Cross on Independencia Street, walkable from anywhere in the downtown heritage cluster.
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