TRAVEL: Anini-y Church Antique Philippines

As I've shared beforehand, we spent the holy week (springbreak to some) in Antique, a province included among the Panay Islands of Visayas. The Philippines, which is an archipelago composed of 7,101 islands is basically divided into three major group of provinces: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The capital of our country is found in Luzon. If our archipelago were a man, Luzon's the head and Visayas is the mid-section. Visayas is a cluster of islands so there's a lot of beaches and bodies of water on that region--but beyond these grand gestures of nature, Visayas is actually composed of very old provinces... so old that they have most of our Spanish Colonial treasures. 

The Philippines, which became a colony of Spain for about 300 years, has a vast number of old basilicas or churches! Here's one of the few old churches I got to photograph while I was in Antique and Ilo-Ilo. Below are pictures of the Anini-y Church. By the way, you read Anini-y as a-knee-knee-eee :)

As expected, it has a high bell tower. It is said that back in the days, the power of the Church is defined by the range of the bells. As long as you hear the Church bells, you are under its authority. It is also for this reason why it is understood that a city is zoned with the Church in the middle. The closer your are to the Church, the more powerful your family is.

So nice because the Church even has its own Spanish Colonial house beside it. I'm assuming it's where the priests reside. I was unable to photograph, but there was a Spanish priest talking to a "native Antiqueno" when we visited the Anini-y Church.

What a beautiful tree.

The power of religion defined our country, our nation and our people.

How about yours?

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K

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