Place to visit
Guisi Point Lighthouse
At a glance
- Typical duration
- 1 to 2 hours, with time on the beach
- Entrance fee
- A small environmental fee, reported at about ₱10 per person (approximate, check locally).
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Visiting in November
- Good
- Types
- Heritage site, Lighthouse, Viewpoint
- Area
- Barangay Dolores, Nueva Valencia
- Coordinates
- 10.481400, 122.474600
The ruined iron tower of a Spanish-era lighthouse, first lit in 1894, on a wooded headland above the Iloilo Strait.
Photos
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Photo: A.C.T. Alejandre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized) -
Photo: Iloilo Wanderer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized) -
Photo: Patrickroque01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)
Known in Spanish times as the Faro de Punta Luzaran, the Guisi Point lighthouse was completed in 1894 to mark the southern entrance of the Iloilo Strait. Its iron tower, about 17.5 metres tall, has lost its lantern and stands rusted beside the roofless stone walls of the keeper's house. A newer light beside the ruins now does the work.
The old structure is fragile and climbing the tower is not allowed. Walk the grounds, look out across the strait toward Panay, then follow the path down to Guisi Beach in the cove below.