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via Daily Tribune, 11 July 2020: Sagada in Philippines’ Mountain Province is a popuar tourist destination known for its hanging coffins.
Popular tourist destination Sagada in the Mountain Province is now technically a heritage town following a local ordinance declaring all structures of cultural and historical importance as heritage sites.
Municipal Ordinance 03-2020, also known as the Sagada Man-Made Heritage Sites Ordinance, was enacted for the preservation of the town’s built environment that are significant in the “history, life, works and culture of the community.”
It defines as man-made structure as any building or edifice either made of stone, wood, grass or materials or any combination thereof intended either as family or public shelter, community congregation and or gathering coupled with the noble intentions of its use and purpose.”
Source: Sagada now a heritage town | Lifestyle | Daily Tribune
