MANILA, Philippines - Vigan has another festival! In addition to the fiesta of their patron St. Paul, a commemoration as a city reborn, the Viva Vigan Festival of the Arts, and even a Longganisa ...

Once in a while, we are blessed with stories where the power of love reigns over the love for power. Here is one that unfolded right in our own country — up north. In the beautiful City of Vigan in ...

Vigan City, through the World Heritage Convention, was able to organize and empower the local community to become primary stakeholders and keepers of their tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

VIGAN, Philippines—Residents and netizens in this Ilocos Sur capital woke up to the news that the country’s only heritage city made it to the list of 21 finalists in the new Seven Wonder Cities of the ...

What has happened in Vigan since inscription on the Unesco World Heritage list has evolved into a heritage success story. Vigan shows how heritage, when conserved properly, is a strong driver for ...

The last time Vigan in Ilocos Sur province pulsated collectively as a city was before 1999 when it was inscribed in the World Heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

PERCHED at the crossroads of its well-preserved cultural heritage and the vestiges of thriving 21st-century modernity, Vigan was enshrined recently as one of the world’s seven wonder cities (N7W).

VIGAN CITY, Philippines–This heritage city in Ilocos Sur province is a step closer to becoming one of the new seven wonder cities of the world after the latest round of online voting pushed it into ...