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GENERAL INFORMATION (TARLAC)

ANAO


  • Añao Quina Buntok Creek, a picnic site, is located 3 kms. from the town hall.   It is ideal for swimming and fishing

BAMBAN


  • Lourdes Grotto has 100 steps leading to the shrine and Bamban Caves.
  • Bamban Caves and Park, in Brgy. San Vicente, is located on a hillside along the main highway just across the Pampanga boundary and 500 m. from the town center.  During the liberation, an elaborate system of caves and tunnels were built by Japanese Maj.-Gen. Rikichi Tsukada as a defense to deny the use of Clark Airbase for the Americans.  It was also used by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo as a hideout from the pursuing American forces of Gen. Krueffer.
  • Sacobia Lake was formed by the 1992 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo where avalanches and mud dammed up the Sacobia River.

CAMILING


  • The town's Church of St. Michael the Archangel, the oldest and biggest in the province, was first built by Dominican Fr. Juan Luis, continued by Fr. Angel Gomez and inaugurated in 1863.  It was destroyed in the 1880 earthquake and the present church was started from 1879 to 1887 by Fr. Salvador Millan and finished by Fr. Balbino Ezpeleta.  The church was the deathplace of Gen. Pedro Pedroche and his men who were killed by Gen. Francisco Makabulos' men on orders from Gen. Antonio Luna on charges of rebellion. On April 13, 1997, both church and convent were destroyed in a fire.
  • The town also has some Spanish colonial houses.
  • The Maria Clara Museum houses Leonor Rivera’s personal memorabilia including jewelry, a music box, wigs, an embroidered box containing letters from Rizal and ornate antique furniture

CAPAS


  • The 54-hectare Capas National Shrine (Paggunita Sa Capas), located 7 kms. west of the town, was built and maintained by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died in Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March, was proclaimed as such by President The 35 hectares of the shrine is planted with rows of trees to represent each of the 22,155 Filipinos and 2,000 Americans who died in Camp O’Donnell, the final destination and concentration camp of the Bataan “Death March” survivors. On April 9, 2003, a new memorial wall and 70-m. high obelisk was unveiled. Nearby is a small museum and a smaller monument, honoring the American dead, built by an American group calling themselves the Battling Bastards of Bataan.
  • The Death March Marker, at Brgy. Sto. Domingo, was the “disembarkation” point where 56,000 Filipino and American survivors were unloaded from their trip from San Fernando (Pampanga) after the first leg of the Death March from Bataan.
  • The Death March Monument, at Brgy. Susuba, is located 3 kms. from the town along the highway.
  • Brgy. Sta. Juliana, located west of the town, is the jump-off point for the 3-hr. trek to Mt. Pinatubo’s crater.  Guides and porters can be hired at the Tourist Information Center.  Within site of Pinatubo is the telatau, a massive man-shaped totem.
  • Crow Valley, in Brgys. Sta. Juliana and Maruglo, was the site of the former target range of the U.S. Air Force.
  • Bueno Hot Springs, in Brgy. Bueno, is located within the Clark Air Base reservation area.
  • Spanish-era cemetery (camposanto munisipyo).
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