Basilica of Santo Niño is located in Cebu City, the capital of the island of the same name, is the oldest Roman Catholic Church of the Philippines. Construction of the church began in 1565 under the leadership of Augustinian monks Andrés de Urdaneta. According to legend, a place for the construction of the basilica was not chosen by chance - it is here, in the center of the current Cebu Spaniards in 1565 found an image of the Child Jesus, brought to the island by Fernand Magellan decades earlier.

The first basilica was built out of clay and wood. In 1735 the governor of the province of Cebu Fernando Valdes Tamon ordered to build on the site a new building, this time in stone. Construction was completed in 1739. Architectural feature of the church was an organic combination of three styles - Muslim, Romanesque and neoclassical. Two centuries later, in 1965, during the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Christianization of the Philippines hundredth of Pope Paul VI has given the Church the status of "Basilica minor". Until now, the Basilica of Santo Niño is in the possession of the Order of St. Augustine.

Inside the Basilica organized a small museum dedicated to the history of the Christianization of the island of Cebu. Here you can see antiques, including antique furniture, apparel priests, statuettes and other things. An interesting part of the museum's collection are the numerous toys, gifted to the baby Jesus.

Today visit the Basilica of Santo Niño come not only many believers, but also tourists. In order to accommodate all the visitors, in the territory of the churchyard it was built the so-called "pilgrim center."