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The Pila Historic Town Center is a historic district located at Barangay Santa Clara Norte, Pila, Laguna, Philippines. The district preserves examples of Spanish and American-era architecture found in its town proper laid out with the Spanish colonial town planning system for the Indies and is also a pre-Hispanic archaeological site. The National Historical Institute (now the National Historical Commission of the Philippines) declared a specific portion of Pila as a National Historical Landmark in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nhcp.gov.ph/files/NHI_res_2_2000.pdf )〕 ==Rationale for Declaration as Historic Town Center== The NHI board resolution cites several reasons for the declaration of certain areas in downtown Pila as National Historical Landmark:〔 *The present-day town of Pila is a pre-Hispanic center of culture and trade in the Laguna area as proven by clay potteries unearthed in an archaeological site in ''Pinagbayanan'' in 1967; *Spaniards used to refer to Pila as ''La Noble Villa de Pila'' in reference to its well-mannered citizens and rich culture; *As of writing, Pila is one of the few, existing towns in the Philippines following the Spanish colonial town planning system with the town center being the plaza complex surrounded by government and religious infrastructure; and *Pila features a collection of well-preserved of Spanish and American-era houses, government structures, and church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pila Historic Town Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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