The best-known landmark in the Province, the Campanario was built to serve as belfry and look-out tower during a time of frequent moro raids. It has four graduated levels, each succeeding story smaller than the one below it. Fray Jose Manuel Fernandez de Septien completed the two lower levels in the 1760s. In the 1870s Fray Juan Felix de la Encarnacion added the third and fourth levels, and three buttresses to protect the tower from earthquakes. Excluding the buttresses, the Campanario stands on approximately 154 square meters in the southeastern corner of the Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria compound, rising 20 meters to the tip of its small dome. It is circular in shape, made of cut coral stone, mortar and brick to take advantage of the insulating quality of the material. The biggest and also the oldest bell in the Campanario is dated 1818. A second bell is marked 1932, and is dedicated to St. Joseph the Patriarch. The third bell is inscribed 1933 in honor of the patron, St. Catherine of Alexandria. The smallest bell is dated 1936, a gift from the Honculada family.

Dumaguete Belfry