Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery

The Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery is a countrywide historical landmark and museum in Barangay Bambang, Nagcarlan, Laguna supervised by means of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. It became constructed in 1845 underneath the supervision of Franciscan priest, Fr. Vicente Velloc as a public burial website and its underground crypt completely for Spanish friars, prominent town residents and members of elite Catholic families. It is dubbed because the handiest underground cemetery inside the united states of america. Fr. Vicente Velloc supervised the establishment of a cemetery in Nagcarlan in 1845 underneath Mt. San Cristobal. Unlike the traditional Spanish cemeteries at that point, Fr. Velloc decided to build it faraway from the town's center.

The cemetery is deliberate to serve as a public resting vicinity for the human beings of the city whilst the underground chamber underneath the chapel of the cemetery will handiest residence remains of Spanish friars and prominent humans. It became built collectively with the development of the accelerated St. Bartholomew Parish Church and rectory. The cemetery is constructed with a chapel where funeral masses changed into held and directly beneath it is an underground crypt.