La Union: Pindangan Ruins

The ruins are the remains of a church built by Augustinian priests in the late 1700s during the Spanish colonial period, while Pindangan, an Ilocano word that means "a place for drying fish," refers to the area where locals used to lay out salted fish to dry out in the sun, a method of preserving and curing meat that the town of San Fernando is still known for.

The church's walls and buttresses are all that is left. Because of its proximity to coastal areas by the sea, the church was subject to pirate raids and foreign invasion during the early years of the Spanish era, and the clergy opted to relocate the town's place of worship to another location. The Pindangan church was abandoned and left to rot until it was demolished by an earthquake somewhere in the 1800s, and it has been in this form ever since.