Culion was a former Spanish fort before the American rule. ... It was so dreaded, it had its own government, police and monetary systems, even a separate cemetery apart from health workers.

A visit at Culion. AT RANDOM - Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ - October 24, 2005 | 12:00am. On Sunday afternoon, 27 May 1906, the first batch of lepers arrived in Culión.

The town of Culion in Palawan used to be known as the “island of no return,” when it served as home to the largest leper colony in the world. Its inhabitants — feared, and at times reviled ...