QuestionsQuestions (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 756)
P.D. No. 756 amends P.D. No. 260 by expanding its coverage to include the “Mestizo Section” as well as the houses of Padre Jose Burgos and Leona Florentino in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, so these areas cannot be demolished, repaired, or renovated without prior study, consultation, and approval by the National Museum.
P.D. No. 756 amends Presidential Decree No. 260.
It vests upon them authority to study, declare, and supervise the restoration of historical sites, buildings, churches, and monuments of historical and/or cultural significance.
The Mestizo Section and the houses of Padre Jose Burgos and Leona Florentino are expressly included.
A trend of modernization in parts of Vigan was expected to “eat up” the portions named, prompting the need to preserve them for tourism and for the country’s history and culture.
No demolition, repair, or renovation of buildings in these areas shall be undertaken without prior study, consultation, and approval by the National Museum.
No. Any demolition, repair, or renovation of buildings in the covered areas requires prior study, consultation, and approval by the National Museum.
Prior study, prior consultation, and prior approval by the National Museum.
The National Museum.
Because preservation of historically/culturally significant areas supports tourism development while protecting heritage from modernization-driven loss.
Its preliminary inventory work identified the Mestizo Section and the houses of Padre Jose Burgos and Leona Florentino as having special significance, leading to their incorporation into P.D. No. 260.
Padre Jose Burgos and Leona Florentino.
It was signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, and countersigned by Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor.
Renovation is constrained by requiring National Museum approval after prior study and consultation; without these steps, renovation/demolition/repair cannot lawfully proceed.
It operationalizes the objective of heritage preservation and tourism development by legally preventing modernization actions (demolition/repair/renovation) that would undermine historically significant portions of Vigan.