The City of Vigan is a third
class city and capital of the province
of Ilocos Sur in the Philippines .
The city is located on the western coast of the large island
of Luzon , facing the South
China Sea . According to the 2010 Philippines census, it has a
population of 49,747 people. It is a World Heritage Site in that it is one of
the few Hispanic towns left in the Philippines where its structures
remained intact, and is well known for its cobblestone streets and a unique
architecture that fuses Philippine and Oriental building designs and
construction, with colonial European architecture. Because of this, According
to a report of Editorial Insider, Vigan
City was officially recognized as one
of the New7Wonders Cities together with Beirut , Doha , Durban , Havana , Kuala Lumpur , and La Paz . New7Wonders Foundation
president and founding member Bernard Weber led a ceremony held at St. Paul
Cathedral where he handed a bronze plaque to Vigan Mayor Eva Grace
Singson-Medina, signifying the heritage city’s election as one of the world’s
wonder cities. Former Philippine president Elpidio Quirino, the sixth president
of the Philippines , was born
in Vigan, at the former location of the Provincial Jail (his father was a
warden); and resided in the Syquia
Mansion
