Mulanay

Mulanay lies on the Bondoc Peninsula of southeastern Luzon, facing the waters between the mainland and Marinduque. Burial jars, stone tools and ceramics found in the area recall communities that lived here before Spanish rule. Franciscan missionaries began evangelising Mulanay around 1600, and it became a town in 1745. Raids along the coast later drove its inhabitants to move their settlement inland for a time; when the danger lessened, many returned to the old site.