Tanza
Tanza, officially the Municipality of Tanza, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines.
Tanza, officially the Municipality of Tanza, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 339,308 people. It has a land area of 95.59 square kilometers (36.91 sq mi), making it the third largest municipality by land area in the province.
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Worth seeing in and around Tanza
4 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.
- 01SM City Rosario
SM City Rosario is a shopping mall which was developed and is owned by SM Prime Holdings. It opened on November 20, 2009 and is the fourth SM Supermall in the province of Cavite, Philippines.
1.7 km · shopping mall in the Philippines · Wikipedia - 02SM City Tanza
SM City Tanza is a shopping mall owned by SM Prime Holdings. It is the seventh SM Supermall to be opened in Cavite, the first SM Supermall in Tanza, and the 79th in the country.
400 m · shopping mall in Cavite, Philippines · Wikipedia - 03General Trias Church
Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church, also known as San Francisco de Malabon Parish Church and commonly known as General Trias Church, is the first Roman Catholic parish church of the city of General Trias in Cavite province in the Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Imus.
3.1 km · Roman Catholic parish church in General Trias, Cavite, Philippines · Wikipedia - 04Tanza Church
The Diocesan Shrine of San Agustin and Parish of Santa Cruz, commonly known as Holy Cross Parish or the Parish of Santa Cruz, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Tanza, in the province of Cavite, Philippines. The shrine is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Imus.
900 m · Roman Catholic parish church in Tanza, Cavite, Philippines · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Casa Hacienda de Tanza
One of a few surviving friar estate houses from the Spanish era.
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Things to do
Lohitor Festival. February 27 or 28. The town's annual festival, coinciding with the anniversary of its foundation and named after a portmanteau of three items associated with Tanza made with paper mache: Lobo (balloon), Higante (giant), and Toro (bull).
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Where to eat
A local delicacy in town is pancit estacion, a noodle dish featuring mung bean sprouts.
- 01Calle Real Restaurant
8 Santa Cruz Street, Poblacion II, +63 999 228 4567, toll-free: +63 46 418 1574, grancomedorfoodsinc@yahoo.com.
- 02Nana Heleng's
A noodle shop serving pancit estacion since 1934.
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Getting to Tanza
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 22 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 77 km · Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 93 km
- Olongapo → Tanza73 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · ₱270–360
- Mabalacat → Tanza73 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · ₱185–250
- Legazpi → Tanza347 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · ₱3,250–5,060
- 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 Tanza
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 Tanza. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBuses bound for Ternate from Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) and Lawton in Metro Manila ply Antero Soriano Highway, from where transfers to Tanza proper via jeepneys and tricycles can be made, usually at the junction next to SM Tanza.
- Get inAn alternate mode of transport is through the baby buses, minibuses and jeepneys that ply the Bacoor-Naic route along Antero Soriano Highway and the jeepneys along Tanza-Trece Martires Road.
- Get aroundTricycles are the most convenient form of public transportation within downtown Tanza and if heading to the coast, while jeepneys connect downtown Tanza with the southern barangays leading to Trece Martires, as well as the western barangays leading to Naic.
From Wikivoyage: Tanza, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tanza
Tanza is 10 km from Imus, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- General Triascity of the Philippines in the province of Cavite3.5 km
- Q63102municipality of the Philippines in the province of Cavite2.5 km
- Q63096municipality of the Philippines in the province of Cavite4.8 km