Cagayan is home to
picturesque beaches, volcanic islands and historically significant natural and
man-made sites. It may be devoid of luxury trappings, true, but it is rich in
natural, rugged beauty. The traveler who strikes out for it (he won’t have to
go very far, really) takes its richest rewards.
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Claveria |
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Callao
Cave |
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Cagayan
River |
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Peñablanca
Protected Landscape and Seascape |
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Cathedral
of St. Peter and Paul in
Tuguegarao City |
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Cagayan
Provincial Museum and Historical Research Center | | | | |
Is a general museum which houses an extensive
collection of artifacts, antiques, ethnographies, tradewares, heirloom pieces
and liturgical works in the province and fossils of animals that once roamed
the valley
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Basilica
Minore of Our Lady of Piat |
Offer a prayer at the Basilica Minore
of Our Lady of Piat, a well-known pilgrimage site
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Old
Bell in the Far East of Camalaniugan |
The
Sancta Maria Bell was forged in 1595, the same year when Catholic friars
converted the local chieftain, Datu Guiyab, and his people to Christianity. The
year 1565 is also only three decades after the establishment of the Spanish
colony in the Philippines by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. It is also not known how
the bell was brought to the town.
A year after, the original parish church was
built, the third one in Cagayan province. A church dedicated to the Polish
saint San Jacinto de Polonia (Saint Jacek of Poland) was built in 1746 but was
later destroyed by typhoon and earthquake. In later years, the church was
moved to its present site, away from the seasonal overflow of the Cagayan
river, which threatened the foundations of the original structure. Today, the
Sancta Maria bell hangs together with the town's other historic bells in the
belfry of the modern-style church.
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St.
Dominic de Guzman Parish |
You’ll find another archaic church in Lol-lo
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St.
Philomene Church |
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Rio
Grande de Cagayan |
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Iguig Calvary
Hills |
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