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A museum dedicated to President Marcos and his achievements, but avoids its excesses. It also used to house the president's preserved remains inside an airconditioned separate mausoleum building, although doubts persisted on whether the wax-looking cadaver on display was the real thing until he was reburied in Metro Manila in 2016, revealing the displayed corpse to be a fake. The dummy remains on display in Batac.
The Ferdinand E. Marcos Presidential Center is a museum situated in Batac, Ilocos Norte dedicated to 10th Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos which also hosts his cenotaph. The museum shows memorabilia of the late president, from his stint in the armed forces down to his presidency. The large cenotaph which contains the glass-encased coffin in which the widely believed embalmed body of Marcos was on public display shortly after his remains were brought in Ilocos Norte from the United States in 1993 until his body was re-interred at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig on November 18, 2016. A wax replica of Marcos remains to be displayed inside the glass coffin.
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Aglipay National Shrine
Gregorio Aglipay, the founder of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, is interred here, at the back of the Aglipayan Cathedral of Saint Mary.
Batac Church
The city's main Roman Catholic church, built in the Romanesque style.
A small shrine with a park and museum dedicated to General Artemio Ricarte, a Filipino revolutionary who is acknowledged as the father of the Philippine Army.