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The main venue of the New Clark City Sports Hub, in the government complex at Capas. It held the athletics events and the closing ceremony of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. The posts and the facade are made of lahar, …
A memorial on the site of Camp Pangatian, a military training camp of twenty years that the Japanese army turned into a prison camp for Allied captives. In January 1945 American forces and Filipino guerrillas raided the camp and freed …
A Marian parish church in Barangay Makinabang, known locally as Bisitang Pula. Its feast day is 7 October, and the procession that goes with it is one of the largest in the city.
A park of caves, rivers and trails in the hills of San Miguel, 80 kilometres northeast of Manila. The park is the site of the Republic of Biak-na-Bato, and President Manuel L. Quezon made it a national park in 1937 …
A Catholic church known in Kapampangan as Pisamban Maragul, the big church. Men built it with unpaid labour under the polo y servicio system from 1877 to 1896, the dome went up in 1891, and the work was finished in …
A limestone cave in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, near Wawa Dam in the municipality of Rodriguez. Andres Bonifacio and eight other katipuneros declared independence from the Spanish Empire inside it on April 12, 1895, and the walls still …
An island in Ragay Gulf, off the southeast coast of the Bondoc Peninsula, with white sand beaches, mangrove forest and coral reefs. Birdlife here is rich. The island and the water around it form the Alibijaban Protected Landscape and Seascape, …
The largest of the seven crater lakes scattered around the city, and the easiest one to reach: it sits directly behind the city hall. Fishpens and small cottages on stilts stand in the water. A public playground was built on …
A statue of Jose Rizal 6.7 metres tall, at the centre of The Plaza, a park of 6.7 hectares across from the Calamba City Hall complex on Bacnotan Road. Jonas Roces sculpted it, and President Benigno Aquino III unveiled it …
An indoor arena seating 6,500, home court of the Biñan Tatak Gel in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League and the Pilipinas Super League. It has also hosted Philippine Basketball Association games, the defunct Philippine Super Liga and the 2019 Asia-Oceania …
A two-span stone arch bridge finished in 1857, and the site of the Battle of Imus. Filipino revolutionaries fought the soldiers of the Spanish colonial government here on September 3, 1896, in an action also called the Battle of Imus …
An active stratovolcano in southern Luzon, 1,535 metres high, with a permanent danger zone that keeps people 4 kilometres from the crater. The cone rises on the northeast rim of the Irosin caldera, which formed about 36,000 years ago, and …
A lake of 18 square kilometres that holds the sinarapan, the world's smallest commercially harvested fish. It sits in the valley between two old volcanoes, Mount Asog and Mount Malinao, and averages 8 metres deep. An earthquake in 1641 dropped …
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, …
A hill above the city with a view of Mayon, the gulf and the airport, and a zipline down. The summit stands about 156 metres high, and it is the highest point in Legazpi after Mayon itself. The hill sits …
A saltwater hot spring by the mangroves, usually the last stop of the day.
A navigable river running under a limestone mountain to the sea, entered by paddle boat. Permits are capped daily and booked ahead. The river lies in a national park in the Saint Paul Mountain Range, about 80 kilometres north of …
A long riverside walk, busy at sunset with runners and food stalls. It runs 9.29 kilometres along both banks of the Iloilo River, from Carpenter Bridge in Mandurriao and Molo to Drilon Bridge in the City Proper and Lapuz, which …
The regional museum, covering prehistoric burial goods through the sugar boom, and the first government-sponsored museum in the country outside Metro Manila. It stands near the Iloilo Provincial Capitol, in a building from 1971 by the architect Sergio Penasales. The …
The city's oldest and largest public market, busiest before dawn. About 6,000 vendors work in it. The dry stalls sell clothing, kitchenware and handicrafts, and the wet stalls sell fruit, vegetables and meat. Roving vendors and cooked-food stalls fill the …
The oldest and smallest Spanish fort in the country, now a walled garden by the pier. Legazpi's men built the first fort here of wood soon after they landed, and it became the core of the first Spanish settlement in …
An observation post on the hilly boundary with Kalinga province that offers views of the surrounding Chico River valley.
The headquarters of the provincial government of Cagayan, housed inside a sprawling gated complex.
A Spanish-era brick kiln located at Barangay Bagumbayan. This was used to fire bricks to be used for various structures during the Spanish colonial era in Tuguegarao such as the Tuguegarao Cathedral and the San Jacinto chapel. It is found …
You can visit the place early in the morning for brisk walking or jogging or in the afternoon for its famed sunset view. You can also spend some time at night eating Balut (a fertilized duck embryo that is boiled …