Tuguegarao

Tuguegarao City is a city in Cagayan Province, known for its unique humid temperature.

Get in

By plane

• 🌍 Tuguegarao Airport (TUG  ^IATA Paliparan ng Tuguegarao, Pagtayaban ti Tuguegarao],). Is Tuguegarao's main airport and is located within the city proper at Barangay Pengue-Ruyu. Small aircraft, helicopters and army cargo aircraft also utilize the airport. Cebu Pacific, Sky Pasada and PAL Express are the domestic airlines which operate routes to and from the city.  

By bus

• Buses bound for Tuguegarao are available from Manila and Laoag. The air-conditioned bus fare from Manila to Tuguegarao is ₱700, the air-conditioned bus fare from Solano to Tuguegarao is ₱250 and the bus fare from Laoag to Tugegarao is ₱455.

Get around

Many tricycles ply around the city which transports passengers to different points within the city. Fee costs around ₱10 per person per ride. The calesa (horse-drawn carriage) is also an available mode of transport in the city.

See

Buntun Bridge

Saint Peter Metropolitan Church

Horno used to prepare bricks

• 🌍 Buntun Bridge (South of Tuguegarao City proper). One of the longest bridges in the country at 1.124 km (0.698 mi). It is 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from the city proper and offers an unobstructed view of the Cagayan River. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Sts. Peter and Paul Metropolitan Cathedral (Tuguegarao Cathedral), Rizal Street, Barangay Centro 10. The seat of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. The Diocese of Tuguegarao was erected on April 10, 1910. Pope Paul VI elevated the Diocese of Tuguegarao into an Archdiocese on September 21, 1974. The church with the belfry is the biggest Spanish colonial church in Cagayan Valley built by the Dominicans who came to evangelize Cagayan Valley. It was constructed from January 17, 1761 to 1767 under the supervision of Fr. Antonio Lobato, OP. The cathedral suffered massive destruction in World War II losing its pipe organ, three wooden retablos, pulpit, wooden choir loft and the painted wooden ceiling all of which were from the early 18th century. The old convent adjacent to the cathedral church was also razed to the ground during the war and was demolished to make way for a new one. The complex was rebuilt by Msgr. Bishop Constance Jurgens who is now entombed inside the church. The Cathedral is also said to be one of the beautiful structures that stood in the land and because of that impression, its portrait can also be seen in Vatican City. The traditional ringing of the cathedral bells for the Angelus and during Mass is still being practiced today. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 St. Hyacinth Church (San Jacinto Church, Ermita de Piedra de San Jacinto), Mabini Street. An elevated historic chapel established in 1604, 100 years older than the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral. American soldiers during the Philippine-American War used it as headquarters in 1899. St Hyacinth is the patron saint of the city whose feast is celebrated every August 15 coinciding with the Pav-vurulun Festival. The oldest brick structure in the city is the first parochial building built by the Dominican fathers in Tuguegarao. The current structure is the latest in a process of rebuilding beginning in 1724, in 1892 after it was destroyed by an earthquake and reconstruction after World War II. The chapel was not heavily damaged during the war and as a result retains its original wooden retablo which dates to the 18th century. (updated May 2016)
• Cagayan Provincial Museum and Historical Research Center, National Highway, Provincial Capitol Complex, ☎ [phone]. At the provincial capitol complex, it was conceived by the Provincial Board in 1971 and became operational on its inauguration on August 15, 1973 during the traditional Aggao na Cagayan. It is a general museum that houses an extensive collection of artifacts, antiques, ethnography, trade wares, heirloom pieces and liturgical works of the province and fossils of animals that once roamed the valley. The museum houses extensive data on the discovery of Callao Man by the National Museum of the Philippines. The center is 5 km (3.1 mi) from Tuguegarao. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 St. Paul University Philippines (SPUP), Mabini Street. It was founded by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres in 1907, who came to Cagayan upon the invitation of Bishop Dennis Dougherty. The school had its operation in a Spanish Convento, adjoining the Cathedral of Tuguegarao. The institution transferred to its present location in 1934 after it was acquired from the Dominican Order. The entire building complex became hospital and garrison of the Japanese forces during World War II and was bombed by the combined American and Filipino ground troops during the liberation in 1945. The institution became the first Catholic University in Region II in 1982 and the first private Catholic University in Asia and the Philippines to be granted ISO 9001 Certification by TUV Rheinland in 2000. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Horno Ruins (Kiln), Barangay Centro 09 (Bagumbayan). 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 besides a basketball court. (updated May 2016)

Do

Festivals

• Pav-vurulun Festival: - week-long, ends in 16 August (annually). Pav-vurulun is an Ibanag word which means get-together or a sense of belonging. It is in this context that the city annually celebrates its patronal fiesta in honor of St. Hyacinth, the patron saint of the city. It gathers Tuguegaraoeños to a week-long festivities culminating with a mass and procession of the patron saint on August 16. The week-long celebration is a festival of activities marked by parades, beauty contests, Pancit Batil-Patung eating contest, street dancing competition, music festival, sports fest, and trade fairs among others.

It is now called the Pavvurulun Afi Festival, a fire-themed festival. Afi is an Ibanag word which means fire, signifying the city's etymology. A highlight of the celebration was the lighting of bamboo torches by more than 3,000 college students from Cagayan State University as part of the kick-off activities. The organizers used citronella oil instead of kerosene, as a safety precaution, to ignite the torches.

Buy

• SM Center Tuguegarao Downtown, Luna Street cor. Mabini Street. 9AM-10PM. SM Center Tuguegarao Downtown has a gross floor area of almost 37,000 m². SM Supermarket, cyberzone and food and nonfood retail tenants. (updated Oct 2016)
• SM City Tuguegarao. SM City Tuguegarao is scheduled to open in 2018, has a gross floor area of almost 90,000 m². Anchor tenants are SM Store and SM Hypermarket. The mail wiil also have Cinemas, foodcourt, cyberzone and amusement center. (updated May 2017)
• Robinsons Place Tuguegarao, Tanza, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan. (updated May 2017)

Eat

• Luna Streat Foodpark. (updated May 2017)

Drink

Sleep

• Pension Joselina, Aguinaldo Street, ☎ [phone]. Fan single rooms ₱600. 
• L B P L Garden Inn, Rizal Street (over the street from Mango suites.), ☎ [phone]. Fan double rooms with own bathroom and cable TV. Very clean. ₱499. (updated Mar 2015)
• Senior Ambrocios Inn, Pan Phillippine high-way (across the street from Victory bus terminal). Clean fan double rooms with own bathroom. A/C double rooms with own bathroom. ₱400/550. (updated Mar 2015)
• Grand Victoria Lodge, Pan Philippine high-way (across the street from Victory bus terminal), ☎ [phone]. Fan double rooms with own bathroom. From ₱300. (updated Mar 2015)
• Hotel Roma. (updated May 2017)

Connect

Go next

• Pagudpud
• Laoag
• Solano (Philippines)
• Callao Cave. In Peñablanca town east of Tuguegarao. A limestone cave and one of the most popular tourist destinations of the province. It is the location of the oldest human remains found in the Philippines known as the Callao Man. 

Routes through Cauayan

Laoag ← Aparri ←	N  S	→ Cabagan → Ilagan/Manila
END ←	N  S	→ Junction ← → Santiago City