Region in Visayas · 4 provinces and cities
A community-run marine sanctuary about 45 minutes by boat, with turtles and a hard coral garden. The island is volcanic and covers 74 hectares, 7 kilometres off the southeastern tip of Negros and 30 kilometres south of Dumaguete. Apo means …
A street festival of masked dancers, held every year on the fourth Sunday of October. The masks give the festival its name: Pista sang Maskara in Hiligaynon. The smiling faces on them are why Bacolod is called the City of Smiles. The city started the festival in 1980, …
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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 …
The seafront promenade, busiest at sunrise and again in the evening when the stalls open. The buildings along it are mostly old sugar mansions and ancestral houses turned into hotels, coffee shops, restaurants and bars, and the water gives a …
Dumaguete's own festival. Sandurot means welcome, and the re-enactment on the boulevard tells how the city took in the peoples who landed here.
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 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Bacolod guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Bacolod’s main Catholic church, begun in the late 19th century and completed in 1894. Built of coral stone and later covered with cement, it is one of the city’s key landmarks. The cathedral is also known for its Centennial Bells …
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.
A week of parades and town booths, held in Dumaguete every October. Each town and city in Negros Oriental keeps a booth with its own products and its own sights, and the province calls the week its festival of festivals. A float parade and a street dancing competition …
A lagoon with a park around it, in the middle of the city. Matching sculptures stand at the two ends of the water: a woman beside a water buffalo at the north end, and a man pulling another water buffalo …
A parish church built partly of brick, a break from the coral stone used for most Spanish-period churches. The Augustinian Recollects built it in 1865 and placed it under Saint Augustine of Hippo. The belfry has a caracol stairway, and …
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 …
A waterfall in the town of Lazi, one of the two natural sights that draw the most visitors on Siquijor. The other one stands in the same town: a centuries-old balete, an endemic species of Ficus tree.
A complex volcano of 1,862 metres, the second highest mountain on Negros Island after Mount Kanlaon. It is the tallest peak of the range called the Cuernos de Negros, the Horns of Negros. The mountain stands 9 kilometres southwest of …
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 parish church known for the very large convent beside it. It became an independent parish in 1857 under Saint Isidore the Laborer, and still carries his Spanish name, San Isidro Labrador. The National Museum of the Philippines has declared …
The festival of festivals: every town and city of Negros Oriental brings its own festival to Dumaguete for ten days, with booths, street dancing and a food fair.
This chapel, designed by Archbishop Norman Campus, is notable for its extensive shellwork. It features Leticia Sia Ledesma’s Barangay Sang Birhen ("Village of the Virgin"), a mosaic made from 95,000 shells, as well as other shell-made images of saints, Stations …
This relatively new church is dedicated to St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes. It is notable for its richly decorated, gold-toned Baroque-style altar, ceiling mural, and Divine Mercy shrine.
One of Bayawan City's waterfalls, Niludhan Falls, lies in Negros Oriental. Local tourism listings group it with two other named waterfalls, Banay-Banay Falls and Lourdes Falls, as some of the city's outdoor sights.
The downtown plaza, officially Plaza del 6 de Noviembre, named for the day the Spanish handed Negros Island over to the Negros revolutionaries. It is trapezoidal, with a belt of trees around the edge, four circular fountains among the trees …
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 …
The oldest American-founded university in Asia, with an acacia-lined campus and an anthropology museum. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions opened it in 1901 as Silliman Institute, an elementary school for boys. It carries the name of Horace Brinsmade Silliman, …
The park surrounding the stadium is filled with eucalyptus trees.
