Belated All Souls’ Day entry: Historic Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery

This National Historical Landmark (so designated by the National Historical Institute) was part of the itinerary of the Quezon-Laguna heritage tour I joined a couple of months ago. [Click on photos to enlarge.] The Underground Cemetery in Nagcarlan, Laguna is said to be the only one of its kind in the Philippines. Built in 1845-1851 by Franciscan friar Father Vicente Belloc, the cemetery became the burial ground first of Spanish clergy then of the town's wealthy or prominent inhabitants. The... 

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