Province in Negros Island, Visayas · 31 towns and cities
An early 20th-century Catholic church, and the only church in Negros Occidental with a dome. It is also the only pro-cathedral in the country, under the Diocese of Bacolod, and it stood in for the Bacolod cathedral during repairs. Work …
A street dancing festival held every 3 to 5 November, and one of the most popular in the region. The dancers paint flowers on their faces, arms, bodies and legs, in the pintados tradition, to show gratitude to people and to their surroundings. The name joins two Spanish …
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A 20th-century Catholic cathedral in the Eclectic style, dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo. It became the seat of the Diocese of San Carlos in 1987, which covers northeastern Negros Occidental and northern Negros Oriental.
The Catholic shrine and parish of Señor Santo Niño, in the city proper. It is the proto-cathedral of the Diocese of Kabankalan, and people commonly call it the Santo Niño Parish-Shrine.
About three kilometers off the coast of Barangay Cadiz Viejo, Lakawon Island is reachable by boat from the mainland. Its white sand draws local visitors who come for a day at the beach or an overnight stay at the island …
One of the three major festivals of the city, held on the third Sunday of January, the same day as the Sinulog in Cebu City. The other two are the Udyakan sa Kabankalan and the charter anniversary.
A Catholic church at Vito, also called the Vito Church. The feast of its patron, Saint Vincent Ferrer, falls on 1 and 2 May.
A protected forest in the northern mountains of Negros, and the largest watershed in the province. It supplies water to seventeen municipalities and cities, including the Bacolod metropolitan area, and covers 80,454.5 hectares across five municipalities and six cities. Mount …
A family home on Cinco de Noviembre Street, built by Manuel Severino Hofileña for his wife Gilda Ledesma Hojilla, a former Miss Silay, and for their nine children. Ramon Hofileña, one of the children, lived here until recently and took …
A museum in the mansion of Victor Fernandez Gaston, son of the first Negrense sugar baron, Yves Leopold Germain Gaston. It shows how a sugar baron lived in the late 19th century. It was the first museum in the province …
An active volcano and the highest mountain on Negros at 2,465 metres. It is also the highest peak in the Visayas, and it ranks as the 42nd-highest peak of an island in the world. The cone is an andesitic stratovolcano …
Negros Island's sugar planters rose up against Spanish rule on this day, starting in the town then called Minuluan, now Talisay. Negros Occidental marks Cinco de Noviembre every November 5 as a local holiday. On November 3, 1898, landowner Aniceto …
A house in the Spanish colonial bahay na bato style, built in 1872, with a ground floor of stone and an upper floor of wood. It belonged to the Lizares family and carries the name of its first owner, Enrica …
The Sagay Marine Reserve protects a set of coral reefs off the Negros Occidental coast, including Carbin Reef, Panal Reef and Macahulom Reef. Sagay City lists it as one of its main tourism attractions, along with nearby Molocaboc Island. The …
An old Catholic church on La Paz Street in the middle of the city, built in 1876 in the Spanish period. It is one of the very few churches in the region with a Romanesque design. It is built of …
A 1-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Silay guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
The largest sugar refinery in the country, and the largest integrated sugar mill in the world. Its compound covers 7,000 hectares, with the Saint Joseph the Worker Chapel standing inside it. The city is 34 kilometres from Bacolod. Don Miguel …
A white sand island resort about three kilometres off the coast of Barangay Cadiz Viejo. It is popular with local visitors. The island covers 13 hectares, is shaped like a banana, and lies 48 kilometres north of Bacolod. The name …
The city's Catholic parish church, named for Saint John the Baptist. An Augustinian priest, Gerónimo Marín, celebrated the saint's feast in the settlement in the 1570s, and the people later accepted him as the patron saint of the place. His …
A Catholic church inside the residential complex of the Victorias Milling Company, known as the Angry Christ Church after its altar painting, which Alfonso Ossorio painted in strong colours. It counts as the first modern sacred building in the country …
A model farm set up in 1881 under a Spanish royal decree and opened on 8 July 1884. The government keeps a stock farm on the site, together with a research centre established by the Philippine Sugar Commission.
An old Spanish fort, built as a lookout post against Moro raids, which were frequent at the time. Himamaylan became the capital of Negros in 1795 and served as a garrison for the Spanish forces.
An old ancestral house in Bago City, Balay ni Tan Juan now operates as a museum. It stands as one of the buildings behind the city's description of itself as the Home of Historical and Natural Treasures. Bago promotes this …
