Rizal
Rizal, officially the Province of Rizal, is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon.
Rizal, officially the Province of Rizal, is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Its capital is the city of Antipolo. It is about 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) east of Manila. The province is named after José Rizal, one of the main national heroes of the Philippines. It is bordered by Metro Manila to the west, Bulacan to the north, Quezon to the east and Laguna to the southeast. The province also lies on the northern shores of Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country. Rizal is a mountainous province perched on the western slopes of the southern portion of the Sierra Madre mountain range.
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Worth seeing in and around Rizal
One place 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.
- 01Bosoboso Church
The Nuestra Señora de la Anunciata Parish Church, commonly known as Boso-boso Church or Boso-Boso Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Sitio Old Boso-Boso, Barangay San Jose in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Antipolo.
3.6 km · Roman Catholic parish church in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rizal
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 31 km · Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 94 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 106 km
- Mabalacat → Rizal79 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · ₱210–275
- Olongapo → Rizal132 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · ₱370–490
- Legazpi → Rizal26 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · ₱105–140
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rizal
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 Rizal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBus service is severely lacking to serve most corners in Rizal, so you might need a car to cover everything not covered well by a jeepney.
- Get inAs a de facto suburb of Metro Manila, western Rizal is served by buses and jeepneys traveling between the two regions.
- Get inFrom Laguna, SINCRODA operates jeepneys from Siniloan to Cainta, entering Rizal at Pililla and passing through Antipolo and Teresa via Manila East Road.
- Get inThere are also separate jeepney services connecting Siniloan with Jalajala, Pililla and Tanay.
- Get inThere are no interprovincial ferries in Laguna de Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Rizal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Rizal
Rizal is 15 km from Antipolo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.