Bacolor
Bacolor, officially the Municipality of Bacolor, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines.

Bacolor, officially the Municipality of Bacolor, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 59,361 people.
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Worth seeing in and around Bacolor
5 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.
- 01Pampanga State University
Pampanga State University, formerly and still commonly referred to as Don Honorio Ventura State University is a state university in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. It was founded by Augustinian friar, Fr.
300 m · public university in the Philippines · Wikipedia - 02Betis Church
Santiago Apostol Parish Church, commonly known as Betis Church, is a Baroque-style church located in the Betis District of Guagua in Pampanga, Philippines under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando. The church was established in 1607 and dedicated to Saint James the Greater, the Apostle.
2.7 km · Roman Catholic parish church in Guagua, Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia - 03Guagua National Colleges
Guagua National Colleges often called GNC is a private, non-sectarian Catholic school in Guagua, Pampanga, Philippines. It offers primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
4 km · private college in Pampanga · Wikipedia - 04San Guillermo Parish Church
San Guillermo Parish Church, commonly known as Bacolor Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of San Fernando.
500 m · church in Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia - 05Sunken Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican
The Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, commonly known as the Sunken Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican, is a Roman Catholic church in Cabetican, Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of San Fernando.
1 km · Roman Catholic church in Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01San Guillermo Parish Church
- 02De Jesus Ancestral House
An 18th century residence that somehow managed to survive the Pinatubo eruption intact and unburied by lahar.
From Wikivoyage: Bacolor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Kapampangan Asan Pakamalan
Don Ceferino Joven Street, Cabambangan,.
From Wikivoyage: Bacolor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Bacolor
- Airports
- Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 23 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 47 km · Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 67 km
- Olongapo → Bacolor44 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · ₱125–165
- Manila (Pasay) → Bacolor63 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ₱185–245
- Laoag City → Bacolor356 km · quickest by road, 9h 11m · ₱980–1,310
- 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 Bacolor
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 Bacolor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom San Fernando, there are jeepneys servicing downtown Bacolor on their way to Guagua via the old National Highway (OG Road).
- Get inThere are also jeepneys servicing Bacolor via JASA.
From Wikivoyage: Bacolor, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bacolor
Bacolor is 18 km from Angeles City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.