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Imaculate Conception Cathedral On March 10, 1972, six days after the Spanish expedition arrived in Puerto Princesa, the first mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Exequiel Moreno in the same place where the cathedral now stands. he later erected the parish under the patronage of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. It took almost a century though before the present cathedral was built, in 1961, under then Bishop Most Rev. Gregorio Espiga. The interesting angular structure departs from the conventional religious architecture of most churches in the country. |
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Princess Eulalia Park It features the statue of a princess whom the park was named and a memorial marker as a perennial remembrance of the founders of Puerto Princesa. It is the site where the decree of the foundation of Puerto Princesa was proclaimed by Captain Don Jose Sostao, head of the Spanish expedition, on March 4, 1872 amid salvos of gunfire. |
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Mendoza Park Mendoza Park was named after Dr. Higinio Mendoza, the war hero of Palawan. His resistance to the Japanese control to led to his execution on January 25, 1944 at Canigaran beach. His remains, together with several unknown soldiers, were interred into the memorial constructed at the far end of the park. |
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This unique "prison without bars" was established by the Americans in 1904. The inmates tend vast farms instead of idly spending time behind the bars. The more enterprising earn by making handicrafts and other productive activities during thier spare time. iwahig has since become synonymous to finely handicrafted bags and other souvenir items. |
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Plaza Cuartel A National Historical Site, Plaza Cuartel is a restored ruin of an old garrison where, in the evening of December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers burned around 150 American Prisoners of war in a tunnel found beneath the park's portals, which now stands as a grim reminder of World War II astrocities. The remains of those who died where buried at St. Louis Country, Jefferson Barracks, National Cemetery, Missouri, U.S.A in 1952. Only 11 prisoners survived to tell the story. |
