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A full tour of Cebu's oldest home.
The Yap-Sandiego Heritage House, Cebu City. Full tour of Cubu's oldest home and one of the oldest houses in the Philippines by Village People Philippines.
Dating back to the Spanish colonial era of the 1600s, the Yap- Sandiego Ancestral House blends Spanish and Chinese cultures that infiltrated the Philippines centuries ago.
The Yap Sandiego Ancestral House is located at 155-Lopez Jaena corner Mabini St., 6000 Parian, Cebu City, Philippines.
It is open daily to the public (entrance fee PhP 50 per person)
The Yap-San Diego Ancestral House is in Parian, Cebu City has been claimed to be one of the first Chinese style houses built outside of China.
It was built during the country’s Spanish colonial era where the Chinese were required to live in the Parians of a city. Cebu’s Parian was founded in 1590 after the arrival of Chinese traders.
The ancestral house is constructed out of coral stones and wood. It was built sometime between 1675 and 1700 and was originally owned by a Chinese merchant named Don Juan Yap.