Tayabas

Tayabas is a city, the former provincial capital of Quezon. The city is home to many Spanish-era architecture, including historic ancestral houses and stone bridges, and is also eligible for inclusion to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Understand

The city lies in the middle of Quezon, at the foot of Mount Banahaw. It once served as the provincial capital of Quezon (then Tayabas) but it was moved to nearby Lucena. The old town center houses many old Spanish-era houses, enough to rival those in Vigan or Taal.

Despite being designated a city after long legislative debates, Tayabas feels more like a town, and is far quieter than nearby Lucena.

History

Tayabas is founded as a Spanish Augustinian mission to evangelize the local Tagalog population, and have been the capital of the province of Tayabas (now Quezon) until 1901. The town have contained many Spanish-era stone houses that once rivalled those in Vigan, but many have been burned down during the Pacific War in the Philippines. Tayabas became a city through a plebiscite in 2007, but controversial court cases about the constitutionality of the city charter bills have interrupted its cityhood for years.

Climate

Tayabas has a rainforest climate, with no dry season. Temperatures vary little by year, and rainfall is distributed all throughout the year.

Get in

By bus

Tayabas serves as a stopover for the daily Buendia-Mauban route operated by Jam Liner. Buses by local operator NCR Lines running between Lucena and Mauban also stop at the downtown.

By jeepney

Jeepneys on the Lucban-Lucena Route stop at various points in the city.

By car

The outlying parts of the city is served by Maharlika Highway (Route 1); a provincial road connects the downtown with Route 1 in barangay Calumpang. Route 603 from Lucena directly serves the old town.

Get around

See
  • 🌍 Tayabas Basilica, Apolinario de la Cruz Street. (updated Dec 2018)
  • Casa Comunidad de Tayabas. Stone house built in 1831, used as a guesthouse for visits by Spanish dignitaries. This house also served as the place of the trial of Hermano Pule after his arrest on 1841. (updated Dec 2018)
  • 🌍 Malagonlong Bridge. A Spanish-era stone bridge along the Pagsanjan-Lucban-Lucena Road (Route 603), built betwee 1840 and 1850 (updated Dec 2018)

Do

Tayabas has its reputation for festivals at various times of the year.

Festivals
  • Taytsinoy Festival (February 2–5) Part of the Chinese New Year celebrations, it is celebrated as appreciation to the Filipino Chinese community in the city.
  • Turumba Festival (Holy Week) - a celebration in honor of the Nuestra Senora de Turumba, Tayabense dance as a thanksgiving to the virgin Mary in the main thoroughfares of Tayabas. Thousands of devotees from Quezon visits the Nuestra Senora de Dolorosa Church.
  • Mayohan Sa Tayabas - (May) Celebrated since 1989, it blends Flores de Mayo celebrations with the colorful local traditions like Parada sa Baliskog.
    • Hagisan ng Suman - Bundles of suman, a kind of rice cake, are paraded in bamboo bundles called bagakay, and as the image of St. Isidore the Worker passes, the suman bundles are thrown into houses and crowds.
    • Pa'yas kay san Isidro (May 13-15) - Houses throughout town are decorated with native material. This celebration rivals Lucban's Pahiyas Festival festivities.
  • Aguyod Festival - Showcases the local arts and the commitment to sustainable development.
  • Hermano Pule Day - Commemorates the martyrdom of Apolinario dela Cruz (Hermano Pule or Ka Pule), a local of nearby Lucban who led a religiously-motivated rebellion against the Spaniards from 1832 until 1841.
  • Araw ng Tayabas (August 13) - Commemorating the heroism of the locals of the city.
  • Feast of San Miguel Arcangel - (September 29)- Celebration dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel.
    • Festejo de los Angeles (September 22-29) - People wearing angel costumes parade through the major streets.

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Accommodations in town are at a premium, but there are many forest resorts, a few with rooms for guest who will spend the night.

  • Villa Cecilia Resort and Hotel, Calumpang-Tayabas Road, Malao-a. (updated Dec 2018)

Connect

Go next

Next to Tayabas is Lucban, a charming little town east of Mount Banahaw, with the Kamay ni Hesus shrine and Pahiyas Festival as its major tourist draws.

Routes through Tayabas

Pagsanjan ← Lucban ←  N  S  → Lucena


gollark: Probably there actually is a system partition or something *there*, it's just not labelled/named properly.
gollark: If they wanted it to be hard, they could just not allow people to conveniently unlock the bootloader. Yet they do.
gollark: Technically Android ROMs aren't *actually* on read-only memory, or updates wouldn't work, they're just not user-writable under normal conditions.
gollark: It specifically doesn't have a partition *named* `system`, which I believe is required.
gollark: Honestly, I have no idea, and I don't have good enough access to actually check.
This article is issued from Wikivoyage. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.