DBP Building - Iloilo City

Source: Google Earth, accessed, 23 October 2024

Source: Google Earth, accessed, 23 October 2024

Location: Iloilo City

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Post-war modern building

Status: Lifted - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Legal basis: NHCP Resolution No. 43, s. 2024

Date removed: 23 October 2024

Removed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

The Code of Kalantiaw

NHCP Photo Collection

Location: Code of Kalantiaw Monument, Batan, Aklan

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Former status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text: 

THE CODE OF KALANTIAW

DATU BENDAHARA KALANTIAW, THIRD CHIEF OF PANAY BORN IN AKLAN, ESTABLISHED HIS GOVERNMENT IN THE PENINSULA OF BATANG, “AKLAN SAKUP.” CONSIDERED THE FIRST FILIPINO LAWGIVER, HE PROMULGATED ABOUT 1422 A PENAL CODE NOW KNOWN AS THE CODE OF KALANTIAW CONTAINING 18 ARTICLES. DON MARCELINO ORFILA OF ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, OBTAINED THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FROM AN OLD CHIEF OF PANAY AND WAS LATER TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH BY RAFAEL MURVIEDO Y ZAMANEY.

THIS MARKER IS ERECTED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF BATAN, AKLAN ON 1 JUNE 1956.

Current status: Delisted

Basis of delisting: Resolution No. 12, S. 2004 of the National Historical Institute (NHI) declared that the Code of Kalantiao has no valid historical basis.

Delisted by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Date delisted: 25 November 2004

Blood Compact Between Sikatuna and Legaspi

Location: Tagbilaran City, Bohol  
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Former status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1941

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

BLOOD COMPACT BETWEEN SIKATUNA AND LEGASPI

ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF MARCH 1565, CAPTAIN GENERAL MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEGASPI’S FLEET ANCHORED ALONG THIS SHORE. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, LEGASPI MANIFESTING TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN THE ISLANDERS, ENTERED INTO A BLOOD COMPACT WITH DATU SIKATUNA FOR THE PURPOSE OF INSURING FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SPANIARDS AND THE NATIVES. A FEW DROPS OF BLOOD DRAWN FROM A SMALL INCISION IN THE ARM OF EACH OF THE TWO CHIEFS WERE PLACED IN SEPARATE CUPS CONTAINING WINE, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FOLLOWERS OF BOTH, EACH CHIEF DRANK THE POTION CONTAINING THE BLOOD OF THE OTHER. THUS, DURING THIS PERIOD OF COLONIZATION, A BOND WAS SEALED IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATIVE PRACTICE, THE FIRST TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE BETWEEN SPANIARDS AND FILIPINOS.

Current status: Delisted

Basis of delisting: Resolution No. 04, S. 2005 – Adopting the recommendation of the Panel resolving the Site of Blood Compact between Sikatuna and Legazpi

Delisted by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Date delisted: 2005