Travel Guide Vigan

Located 130 km from San Fernando (La Union), in the northwest of Luzon, where the colonial imprint is more evident than elsewhere, Vigan is a very interesting city in terms of architecture. It has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as the best preserved example of a Spanish colonial city in Asia. Capital of Ilocos, it is a city with a strong Iberian and Chinese influence, the only one that has preserved so many colonial treasures. Vigan, the "great village of the eighteenth century" where you can ride in a horse-drawn carriage, was the birthplace of 150 wooden and stone castles. It was also a stage on the famous silk road that linked Asia, Arabia and Europe. Gold and wood were traded there. Spanish city since its capture in 1572 by Juan de Salcedo, it lived many anti-colonialist troubles, as with the resistance of Diego Silang in 1762 (he was assassinated, and his wife, who took the local power, ended up hanging). The reason Vigan is so beautiful is that the United States did not have the opportunity to bomb it during World War II, as Japanese troops had left the city shortly before. A stay of two or three days is quickly over. Let's face it: we like Vigan a lot!