Cagsawa Ruins

The Cagsawa Ruins are the remnants of a 16th-century Franciscan church, the Cagsawa church. It become initially built inside the metropolis of Cagsawa in 1587 but was burned down via Dutch pirates in 1636. It changed into rebuilt in 1724 via Fr. Francisco Blanco, however became destroyed again, along with the metropolis of Cagsawa, on February 1, 1814, at some point of the eruption of the Mayon Volcano.

The ruins are currently positioned in Barangay Busay, Cagsawa, within the municipality of Daraga, Albay, Philippines. The baroque church of Cagsawa changed into firstly built in 1587 inside the small city of Cagsawa spelled as Cagsaua in the course of the Hispanic technology inside the Philippines. But it become burned down by using Dutch pirates in 1636. In 1724, the church turned into rebuilt with the aid of Franciscan friars underneath Father Francisco Blanco. On February 1, 1814, the most powerful eruption recorded thus far of the Mayon volcano buried the metropolis of Cagsawa and its surrounding areas underneath numerous hundred million cubic meters of tephra and lahar.