Cebu City
A Chinese-Filipino merchant's home from the 1600s, still furnished and lived in
Built in the late 1600s by a Chinese merchant in what was then Cebu's Parian district, this is among the oldest surviving residential buildings in the country. Coral stone below, hardwood above, held together with egg white in the mortar.
It has stayed in the same family line and is still furnished — santos in the sala, a four-poster bed, kitchen implements, family portraits. The floorboards are original and they let you walk on them, which is what separates it from a reconstructed period room.
In Parian, a minute on foot from the Heritage of Cebu Monument and about fifteen minutes by taxi from uptown.
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