The Yap-Sandiego ancestral house in Cebu City. —PHOTO COURTESY OF VAL SANDIEGO CEBU CITY—The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) has declared an ancestral house in Barangay Parian, Cebu City, an 'important cultural property.' The Yap-San Diego house is one of the only two oldest Chinese houses built outside China by Chinese merchants who migrated to other countries in Southeast Asia. The other is Syquia Mansion in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. The Yap-Sandiego house was originally owned by Chinese merchant Don Juan Yap and his wife Doña Maria Florido.

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