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Bacolor

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

Bacolor
Bacolor · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Pampanga 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
  2. 02
    Betis 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
  3. 03
    Guagua 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
  4. 04
    San 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
  5. 05
    Sunken 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    San Guillermo Parish Church
  2. 02
    De 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.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Kapampangan Asan Pakamalan

    Don Ceferino Joven Street, Cabambangan,.

From Wikivoyage: Bacolor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Bacolor
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · ₱125–165
  • Manila (Pasay) → Bacolor
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ₱185–245
  • Laoag City → Bacolor
    356 km · quickest by road, 9h 11m · ₱980–1,310
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sabang and Puerto GaleraPH

    9 ways of moving, 47 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    CoronPH

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    El NidoPH

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Leyte IslandPH

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    652 km
  5. 05
    Tagbilaran and BoholPH

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    689 km

If you know how people move in Bacolor – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bacolor

Bacolor is 18 km from Angeles City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.