Cagsawa Ruins now a National Cultural Treasure

DARAGA, ALBAY, Philippines — The National Museum of the Philippines declared the Cagsawa Ruins in Busay village here a National Cultural Treasure on Sunday, coinciding with the opening of the annual Cagsawa Festival, which commemorates the site’s destruction and claimed over 1,200 lives during the Feb. 1, 1814, eruption of Mayon Volcano. Mayor Victor Perete