Built in 1796 and dedicated to San Vicente Ferrer, the Punta Cruz watchtower, on the shores of the municipality of Maribojoc, stands at site where oral lore has it that the first Jesuit missionaries set foot on Bohol. The tower is part of a wider defense net built along the Visayan coast to protect settlements from slave raiding bands that struck during the season of the habagat or southwestern monsoon.

Heritage Features: The cut coral and brick structure is planned as a truncated pyramid of three sides. The first floor is elevated above the ground by about a meter. On the landward side a flight of stairs leads to a second story planned as a hexagon. Openings on three sides of the hexagon lead to observation platforms, one has a shallow niche, probably functioning as a sentry box. The watch tower is actually a small fort. Rather handsome, it commands an excellent view of Bohol Strait and the neighboring island of Cebu.