The Philippines and its Character of Ruins
Cebu and Bohol Islands are among the foremost tourist and expatriates destination in Central Visayas. The tranquility and serenity in this island provinces were recently shaken by an earthquake that registered at 7.2 magnitude on the Richter scale. Scores of lives were lost while hundreds of properties and infrastructures were destroyed including the decimation of numerous churches that said to have been 100 years to three centuries old. Apart from rescue, reconstruction and retrieval activities, efforts are said to have been underway to restore those churches with the National Historical Commission taking the lead. The urgent enthusiasm and the undaunted desire to put those old churches to what it is, before it crumbled is laudable, and even more are welcomed by most Filipinos. The unanimous and compelling desire to resuscitate, at least aesthetically, those old churches exudes the Filipino’s love for history and the romanticism that surrounds it. Surely, most tourists that