Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar  Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is a sprawling property from over 400 hectares in the midst of Bagac, Bataan, Philippines. An open-air museum and heritage resort consisting of 128 guest rooms and 63 elite casas, Las Casas is a restored piece of history saved from total ruin and neglect. Currently, the property has four major restaurants including Cusina ni Nanay Maria, Café Marivent, Café Del Rio, and La Bella Teodora. It also features a beach, a batis-inspired swimming pool, and a man-made estero. Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is nestled at Barangay Ibaba, Bagac, Bataan (Region 3, Central Luzon, Philippines). Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is a reconstructed 18th-century Filipino settlement that showcases the best of Filipino heritage and culture through the colorful stories as retold by Jose “Jerry” Acuzar’s collection of restored Spanish-Filipino houses. One of the successful projects of New San Jose Builders, Incorporated, Las Casas opened its doors to the public in 2010 – almost seven years after owner Acuzar started rebuilding Spanish colonial-era mansions in his sprawling property. Each of the Filipino-Spanish houses were dismantled brick-by-brick, numbered, transported to the Bagac site, and were re-assembled and restored. For parts that were missing, Las Casas craftsmen replicated the original structure. Aside from the architectural treats, Las Casas commissions a total of 148 artisans from dying art industries and houses their respective families inside the Bataan sprawl. These craftsmen hail from different parts of the country – including Romblon, Laguna, Pampanga, even Bataan and Manila. Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar contains 30 heritage houses. The management of the resort has been criticized many times in the past due to the nature of its acquisition of heritage structures. Many of the heritage houses, like the bahay-na-bato and torogan, have been acquired by the resort, and transported to its current location, putting away the essential geographic and cultural value of those house to each of the structure’s original domains. Outrage have erupted when the management tried to get the ancestral house of national hero, Jose Rizal, from Calamba before. Half of the building was taken, leaving the half in Calamba.