"Vigán (, hokkien (Peh-e-j): bîgán, mandarín estándar (pinyin): miàn, ilocano: Siyudad ti Vigan, tagalo: Vgân) es una ciudad de Filipinas, dentro de la región de Ilocos, siendo la capital de la provincia de Ilocos Sur. La ciudad está situada en la costa occidental de la gran isla de Luzón, frente al Mar de la China Meridional. Según el censo del año 2000 tiene una población de 45.143 personas en 9193 hogares. Elpidio Quirino, el 6º presidente de Filipinas, residía en Vigan. Fue declarada como Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en el año 1999, ya que es la ciudad colonial española en Asia mejor conservada, y es bien conocida por sus calles empedradas y una arquitectura única que mezcla el diseño de los edificios de Asia y de la construcción europea con la arquitectura colonial y la planificación."
"Vigan, officially the City of Vigan (Ilocano: Ciudad ti Bigan; Filipino: Lungsod ng Vigan) is a fourth-class component city and capital of the province of Ilocos Sur in the Philippines. The city is located on the western coast of the large island of Luzon, facing the South China Sea. According to the , it has a population of people. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in that it is one of the few Hispanic towns left in the Philippines where its structures have remained intact, and is well known for its cobblestone streets and a unique architecture that fuses Philippine and Oriental building designs and construction, with colonial European architecture. Former Philippine president Elpidio Quirino, the sixth President of the Philippines, was born in Vigan, at the former location of the Provincial Jail (his father was a warden); and resided in the Syquia Mansion. In May 2015, Vigan City was officially recognized as one of the New7Wonders Cities together with Beirut, Doha, Durban, Havana, Kuala Lumpur and La Paz. New7Wonders Foundation president and founding member Bernard Weber led a ceremony held at St. Paul Cathedral where he handed a bronze plaque to Vigan Mayor Eva Grace Singson-Medina, signifying the heritage city's election as one of the world's wonder cities."
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