Participants of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Tourism Forum are set to visit 14 heritage sites in Cebu on Wednesday, January 27 and Thursday, January 28, 2026.

The Cebu Heritage Walk is one of the activities of the ASEAN Tourism Forum in Cebu City.

Most of the historical sites were renovated such as the Plaza Parian and Cebu Heritage Monument.

The Heritage Walk will also take delegates to the Cebu City Hall, Plaza Sugbo, Magellan’s Cross, and the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu.

Further, delegates are set to visit the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, and the newly renovated Patria de Cebu, including nearby Plaza Hamabar which features the statue of Rajah Humabon, a 16th-century tattooed chieftain in Cebu.

Delegates will also experience Colon Street, what once was deemed the oldest street in the Philippines. However, this information was already challenged by local historian and archaeologist, Dr. Jose Eleazar (Jobers) Bersales. 

Colon is named after Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus), though historians have determined that Columbus never set foot in the Philippines.

Other heritage site is the Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House in Parian.

The ASEAN 2026 delegates will also visit museums such as the Casa Gorordo, National Museum of the Philippines - Cebu, Fort San Pedro.

The itinerary would be completed through a stop at the Plaza Independencia. 

Mayor Nestor Archival hopes that the walk would serve as a promotion of Cebu City tourism on a global scale.

Archival also called on the public to bear with the closure of certain roads, or thoroughfares, during the ASEAN Tourism Forum.