Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Iloilo City, Philippines

The Celso Ledesma House, or Celso Ledesma Mansion, also known as Eagle House, is a heritage house located in Iloilo City, Philippines. Situated within the Calle Real Heritage Zone in Iloilo City Proper, the house was built in 1922 by engineers Mariano Cacho and Mariano Salas for Don Celso Ledesma. During World War II, the Japanese imperial forces earmarked the house for an important official. However, as the official never arrived in Iloilo, the house and all its furniture were spared from requisition or damage.

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Plaza Libertad, formerly known as Plaza Alfonso XII, is a historic plaza or town square in Iloilo City, Philippines. It is considered the site where the flag of the first Philippine Republic was raised in triumph after Spain surrendered Iloilo, the last Spanish capital in the Philippines, to the revolutionary forces led by Gen. Martin Delgado on December 25, 1898.

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San Jose Placer Parish Church, also known as San José de Placer Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Iloilo City, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Jaro. It was built in 1607 by the Jesuits and is considered the first ever church in the city of Iloilo. The church houses the replica of Santo Niño de Cebú, the patron saint of the Dinagyang Festival, as well as the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Iloilo. It is located in what was once known as Plaza Alfonso XII, now Plaza Libertad, a historic plaza in Iloilo City.

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Nicholas Loney was an English businessman and the British Empire's vice-consul in the city of Iloílo.

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The Iloilo Customs House is a historical building in Iloilo City, Philippines. It was built in 1916 to a design by American architect Ralph Harrington Doane, then Consulting Architect of the Bureau of Public Works in the Philippine Islands. Among the three American-era customs houses in the Philippines, it is the second largest and second oldest. The building is located at Muelle Loney Street and Aduana Street along the Iloilo River and still houses the offices of the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Immigration in Iloilo City.

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The Eusebio Villanueva Building, also known as E. Villanueva Building or simply Villanueva Building, is a neoclassical building located along the historic Calle Real in Iloilo City Proper, Iloilo City, Philippines. Built in 1927, it was originally known as the Washington International Hotel. The hotel catered to American, British, and Spanish patrons, as well as Chinese bankers and merchants.

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The Plazoleta Gay, also known locally as Socorro Crossing and formerly referred to as Plaza Gay, is an intersection and diagonal crossing located in downtown Iloilo City, Philippines. It is situated in front of Hua Siong College, Socorro Drug, Locsin-Coscuella Building, and Terranza Residences, and connects Ledesma, Iznart, Arroyo, J.M. Basa, and Iznart Extension Streets. At the center of the intersection stands a white commemorative obelisk, topped with a dove.

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