page_title: Bantayan, Cebu
section_title: Houses
hierarchical_section_title: Bantayan, Cebu / Heritage / Houses
caption_attribution_description: English: Bantayan heritage in ruins - on plaza
context_page_description: Bantayan, officially the Municipality of Bantayan, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 79,084 people.
context_section_description: Central plaza was the location of several well-built houses.  Opposite the church Manuel del Rosario built two which used to be "the grandest homes on Bantayan island".  Originally pre-dating the church, one was used as the Casa de Mamposteria (house of masons) during construction of the church.  The main house was later inherited by the son of del Rosario and his second wife, while the house next door was their wedding gift to their daughter.
  After subsequent bequests, ownership of both houses was shared by many scions of the Causing and Escario families.  They were unable to decide on (or maybe fund)   any necessary preventive maintenance work.  As at February 2013 both houses have more or less collapsed in ruins past repair.  All that remains of Bantayan's former glory is a dangerous and unsightly collection of rotten beams, collapsed walls and broken tiles occupying a prime and valuable location.  Typhoon Yolanda subsequently caused both ruins to collapse entirely.
caption: Derelict once-grand homes on Bantayan island
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