San Ildefonso is a municipality in the province of Bulacan. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 104,471 people. With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, the municipality is now part of Manila’s built-up area which makes San Ildefonso its northernmost part.
Built in 1572, the St. John the Baptist Church is the oldest church in Bulacan. Constructed under the supervision of Augustinian priest Fr. Diego Vivar-Ordoñez, the church had been witness to the Filipino’s struggle against Spanish, American and Japanese…
The Plaridel Simborio Chapel is over 400 years old and is one of Bulacan’s oldest structure. An existing structure from the Spanish era, believed to have been constructed in the 1800s, is said to have been greatly unique from other similar structures…
Meycauayan Church, commonly known as the The Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church, is one of the oldest parishes in Bulacan which even predates the Malolos Cathedral established in 1580 and the Barasoain Church established in 1630. It is also the province’s…
Barasoain Church (also known as the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish) is a Roman Catholic church built in 1888 in Malolos, Bulacan. It is about 42 kilometers away from Manila. Having earned the title as the “Cradle of Democracy in the East, the most important religious …
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