Bacolod City
Bacolod, officially the City of Bacolod, is a highly urbanized city in the Negros Island Region in the Philippines.
Bacolod, officially the City of Bacolod, is a highly urbanized city in the Negros Island Region in the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 624,787 people, making it the most populous city in the Negros Island Region and the second most populous city in the entire Visayas after Cebu City.
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Worth seeing in and around Bacolod City
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Panaad Stadium
The Panaad Stadium, also sometimes spelled as Pana-ad, named after the park where the stadium is situated in, is a multi-purpose stadium in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod, Philippines. Panaad hosted various international sporting events particularly football when Bacolod co-hosted the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification against Mongolia.
5.9 km · multi-purpose stadium located inside the Panaad Park and Sports Complex in Bacolod, Philippines · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Bacolod
The Diocese of Bacolod is a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church in Negros Occidental, Philippines. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jaro, its jurisdiction covers most of the northwestern towns and cities of the province of Negros Occidental namely, as far as Victorias City in the north and the Municipality of Hinigaran in the south.
1.1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines · Wikipedia - 03San Sebastian Cathedral
San Sebastian Cathedral is a late 19th-century Roman Catholic church in Bacolod, Negros Occidental in the Philippines. It is the seat of the Diocese of Bacolod.
800 m · Roman Catholic cathedral in Bacolod, Philippines · Wikipedia - 04University of St. La Salle
The University of St. La Salle is a Catholic private research university run by the De La Salle Brothers, located in La Salle Avenue, Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
1.3 km · Catholic private research university · Wikipedia - 05Fountain of Justice
The Fountain of Justice is a historic landmark in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It marks the location where the house of Jose Ruiz de Luzurriaga used to stand.
1.2 km · historic monument in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines · Wikipedia - 06The Ruins
The Lacson Ruins are the remains of the ancestral mansion of Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson and Maria Braga Lacson. It is situated in Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
5.2 km · private in-stu open-air Local museum in Negros Occidental, Philippines · Wikipedia - 07University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos
The University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos, Incorporated, is a private, Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution administered by the Order of Augustinian Recollects in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It was founded in 1941.
2.3 km · private Catholic research university in Bacolod City, Philippines · Wikipedia - 08Capitol Park and Lagoon
The Capitol Park and Lagoon is a provincial park located in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, in the Philippines. One of the features of the park are matching sculptures depicting a woman standing alongside a water buffalo and that of a man pulling another water buffalo.
100 m · park in Bacolod, Philippines · Wikipedia - 09Carlos Hilado Memorial State College
Carlos Hilado Memorial State University, also colloquially called by its former acronym CHMSC, is a public, state-owned university, the main campus of which is in Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It provides preschool, elementary, secondary, higher technological, professional and vocational instruction and training in science, agriculture and industrial fields, as well as short-term or vocational courses.
3.9 km · College in the Philippines · Wikipedia - 10Tana Dicang House
The Tana Dicang House, also known as Balay ni Tana Dicang, is a historic house in the Spanish colonial era bahay na bato style in Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The house was named after its original female owner Enrica Lizares, nicknamed Dicang.
6.8 km · lifestyle museum in Negros Occidental, Philippines · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Bacolod Public Plaza
The Bacolod version of Central park but smaller; fountains are scattered around the plaza and a gazebo stands in the middle.
- 02Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol
The official seat of the provincial government and perhaps the most impressive building in Bacolod City.
- 03Locomotive
- 04Locomotive
- 05Bacolod City Hall
- 06Panaad Park and Sports Complex
The park surrounding the stadium is filled with eucalyptus trees.
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Things to do
= = Bacolaodiat Festival. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) celebrated by the Filipino-Chinese community in Bacolod. This is held in the Provincial Lagoon. Bacolaodiat is derived from the words "Bacolod" and "Laodiat"; a Hokkien word meaning "Celebration".Rows of stalls serving Chinese cuisine form "chopsticks alley". Live bands play, there are displays of Chinese culture, and a cookfest is also held.
- 01Panaad Stadium
- 02New Negros Coliseum
Additionally, shooting ranges are located around the city.
- 03Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club
This golf club has 18-holes, with a panoramic view of the Mount Mapara and Patag.
- 04Negros Super Lanes
Goldenfield Commercial Complex,.
- 05Lopue's East Bowling Lanes
Villamonte.
- 06Center Court
Magsaysay St,.
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Where to eat
Bacolodnon cuisine, and Negrense cuisine more broadly, shares much with the food of nearby Panay, but has also been influenced by Negros's sugar industry. Bacolod also has many restaurants serving other cuisines, though local food remains an important part of the city's identity. In Hiligaynon, sud-an means the main dish eaten with rice, while kan-on can mean either "rice" or "to eat".
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Getting to Bacolod City
- Airports
- Bacolod-Silay (BCD), 13 km · Iloilo (ILO), 53 km · Mactan Cebu (CEB), 120 km
- Stations
- Bacolod City Domestic Airport, 4.4 km · BREDCO Port, 1 km
- Cabatuan → Bacolod City56 km · quickest by road, 7h 50m · ₱295–390
- Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City → Bacolod City119 km · quickest by road, 8h 57m · ₱840–1,120
- Kalibo → Bacolod City132 km · quickest by road, 8h 14m · ₱460–610
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bacolod City
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bacolod City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBacolod is a major transport hub with an international airport, a large and busy ferry port, and good road connections with many buses.
- Get inShort ferry trips go to Iloilo City, just across the Guimaras Strait to the west, giving access to the islands of Panay and Guimaras, and to Boracay which is near Panay.
- Get inOther ferries go to more distant destinations.
- Get inFor Cebu Province to the east, there are some direct ferries, but the usual transport is a bus which goes to San Carlos (Negros Occidental), rides a ferry to Cebu Island, and continues by road to Cebu City.
- Get inAn alternate route to Cebu, and the usual route to Bohol, is to take a bus across Negros to Dumaguete and catch a ferry there.
From Wikivoyage: Bacolod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bacolod City
Bacolod City is 6 km from Mansilingan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Talisaycity of the Philippines in the province of Negros Occidental6.6 km
- St. Francis of Assisi Schoolprivate school, catholic school in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines6.3 km
- Bata National High Schoolpublic high school in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines3.8 km