National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Fort Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Fort San Pedro)

Location: Iloilo City, Iloilo (Region VI)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Fortification
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

FORT NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL ROSARIO

SITE OF FORT NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO. BUILD IN 1617 AS A PROTECTION AGAINST PIRATES. IT WAS MADE OF MORTAR AND STONE AND WAS SQUARE IN SHAPE WITH FOUR BASTIONS. THE ONE FACING SOUTH WERE BUILT BY GENERAL JUAN DE MESA.

(Source: Historical Markers Region V-XII, National Historical Institute, 1994, Manila; p. 116)

Legend

LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

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

Fort Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Fort San Pedro)

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