Filipino Cultural Heritage
Filipino Cultural Heritage
Filipino Cultural Heritage
Heritage
Introduction
•Heritage is defined with different shades and meanings.
•It can be monuments and sites that embody the cultural,
political, economic or social history of the community.
•To date the UNESCO World Heritage List includes 890
properties forming part of the cultural and natural
heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as
having outstanding universal value.
•These include 689 cultural, 176 natural and 25 mixed
properties in148 State Parties.
World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
•Historic Town of Vigan (1999)
•Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (1995)
•Baroque Churches of the Philippines (1993)
- (Manila, Santa Maria, Paoay and Miag-ao)
•Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park (1999)
•Tubbataha Reef Marine Park (1993)
What is Heritage?
•It is the “the cultivation of cultural patrimony”
- Christopher Tunnard
TANGIBLE
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
HERITAGE
Time Setting
Intangible Heritage
•Culture
- Traditions (Oral and Written)
- Costume
- Values
- Trade and Skills
Tangible Heritage
•Natural Heritage
- Environment
• Natural Landscape
• Landforms
• Coastal and Inland Water
Sources
‘Baleti’ Oldest Tree in Canloan City Mangrove: Oldest Tree in San Juan,
Batangas
I. Natural Heritage
b. Trees
Tropical Vegetation
Flora: Ilang-ilang, Sampaguita,
waling waling and mariposa
orchids
I. Natural Heritage
d. Minerals
Status:
Endemic and Critically
endangered
I. Natural Heritage
f. Animals
Sisa
IV. Performing Arts
b. Dance
Tinikling
V. Performing Arts
a. Music
Ethnic Music
VI. Cuisine
a. Cuisine
Lola Sima
VII. Personalities
b. Influential People (Dead or Alive)
Traditional costumes,
terno and barong
XIII. Costume/Accessories
b. Accessories
Historic Coins
XV. Religious Groups
a. Religious Groups