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Antipolo is the capital of Rizal province in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines, on the hills east of Metro Manila, and it is famous for its pilgrimage cathedral of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, the Hinulugang Taktak falls and its night views over the metropolis. About 914,000 people live in the city.
The name comes from the tipolo breadfruit tree. Franciscan missionaries came in 1578 and the Jesuits in 1591, and in 1626 Governor-General Juan Nino de Tabora brought from Mexico the dark wooden image of the Virgin that made the town a place of pilgrimage. Even the young Jose Rizal walked here with his father in 1868.
Today Antipolo is the most populous city of Calabarzon, and millions of pilgrims climb to the cathedral from May to July. Visitors also come for the cool hills, the Pinto Art Museum, mangoes, cashews and suman rice cakes, and for day trips to the forests of the Upper Marikina basin, the Masungi Georeserve and the oldest rock art in the country.
Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo is the International Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage and the seat of the Bishop of Antipolo. The first church was finished in 1632, the old one was destroyed in 1945, and today millions of pilgrims visit, above all from May to July.
Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is the dark wooden image of the Virgin kept in Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo. It came from Mexico in 1626 on the galleon El Almirante, was credited with safe crossings of the Pacific, was crowned in 1925, and her feast is the first Tuesday of May.
Boso-Boso Church in Antipolo is a Franciscan mission church first built in 1669 for the Dumagat people in the hills of Barangay San Jose. Damaged by an earthquake in 1880 and razed in World War II, it was rebuilt by 1995 behind the ruins of its old stone facade, which were kept.
The Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo was founded in 2010 by the doctor Joven Cuanang and has six open-air buildings on 12,000 square metres in Grand Heights. It shows contemporary and indigenous Filipino art, and its arboretum has about 500 native plant species and a cafe.
Hinulugang Taktak in Antipolo is a waterfall and protected landscape whose name means the place where the bell fell, from a story of a loud bell thrown into the falls. Long a favourite outing sung of in a 1929 hymn, it reopened in 2020 after a long clean-up of its polluted waters.
The Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape covers 26,125 hectares of the Sierra Madre foothills in Antipolo and nearby towns of Rizal. It protects the upper reaches of the Marikina River and was raised from a watershed reservation to a protected landscape in November 2011.
The Masungi Georeserve sits on limestone karst in the southern Sierra Madre in Baras, a popular day trip from Antipolo and Metro Manila. Guided trails cross hanging bridges and the Duyan, a giant rope hammock, and over 400 kinds of plants and animals live around Masungi Rock at 640 metres.
Daranak Falls is a waterfall in the town of Tanay, in the same Rizal hills as Antipolo, and it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the province. Its name comes from a Tagalog word for flowing, that describes the water running down the falls, though another story links it to blood.
The Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs are 127 human and animal figures carved into a rock wall between Angono and Binangonan, south of Antipolo, probably before 2000 BC. They are the oldest known artwork in the Philippines, a National Cultural Treasure, with a site museum of the National Museum.
Wawa Dam is a gravity dam of 1904 to 1909 on the Marikina River in Rodriguez, Rizal, set in the steep Wawa Gorge north of Antipolo. Built to give Manila water, it saw hard fighting from March to May 1945 along the Montalban and Antipolo hills, and it went out of use in 1968.
The Casa Santa Museum in Antipolo is a public attraction at Jardin de Miramar in the hills east of Metro Manila. Its Casa Santa Houses are small buildings filled with collections of Santa Claus figurines, an unusual sight among the shrines and falls of the city.
Suman is the rice cake that visitors to Antipolo take home, made of glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and wrapped in leaves for steaming. It is eaten sprinkled with sugar or with latik, and Antipolo's mangoes and cashews are just as popular with visiting tourists.
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