Bacarra Bell Tower
The Bacarra Bell Tower is located at the right side of the Roman Catholic
Church. It was built in 1830’s and made up of coral blocks and stocco with an
original height of fifty (50) meters and a three (3) storey with a wall of five
(5) meters thickness. The earthquake wrecked it in 1931, which had caused the
top most portions to tilt a little sideward on the right.
The August 17, 1983 earthquake had caused the total fall down of the dome and it
became popularly known as: “THE DOMELESS DIGNIFIED BELLTOWER OF ASIA”.
The tower serves not only as a tourist attraction but also as a historical
landmark of the painful sacrifices of the ancestors of the Bacarreños who
rendered forced labor under the Spanish conquerors.