This curated walking tour takes participants through selected historical landmarks in Tacloban City. Destinations included in the tour are the San Juanico Bridge, which was was the country’s longest bridge crossing a body of water prior to the opening of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX); the Santo Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum, which is one of the 20 presidential rest houses built by late former President Ferdinand Marcos for his wife Imelda, who was originally from Tacloban; the Archdiocesan Shrine of Sto. Nino de Tacloban, which was built in 1596 by the Jesuits as a small chapel called the Dulce Nombre de Jesus; the Yolanda Memorial, which commemorates the lives lost during the Yolanda (Haiyan) Super Typhoon of November 2013; the M/V Eva Jocelyn, which is a memorial made from the restored bow of the cargo vessel swept to the shores of Barangay Anibong due to strong storm surges; the Madonna of Japan, which is a symbol of peace between the Filipinos and Japanese 33 years after the World War II; and the Leyte Provincial Capitol, which is a historic building that served as the temporary national capitol in 1944 to 1945 during World War II era and as the seat of government of Leyte until 2019.
