Bago City
Negros Occidental · Component City · Hometown of Gen. Juan Araneta
About
Lowland farm city reaching up to Kanlaon's foothills, with mountain resorts and the Bago River.
History
Bago was a pre-colonial settlement that became a center of the sugar economy. Gen. Juan Araneta, co-leader of the 1898 Negros revolution, was born here. Bago was chartered as a city on February 19, 1966.
Festival
Babaylan Festival — February · February 19
Recreates the rituals of pre-Hispanic babaylan priestesses.
Must-see
- Buenos Aires Mountain Resort
- Kipot Twin Falls
- Gen. Juan Araneta monument
Food to try
- Native rice cakes
Places in Bago City
- Balay ni Tan Juan (Gen. Juan Araneta Museum) — Ancestral home of the 1898 revolution hero Gen. Juan Araneta, now a museum.
- St. John the Baptist Church, Araneta Monument & Bantayan Park — 1891 church, the hero's monument and Bago's riverside park in the town centre.
- Kipot Twin Falls — Perfectly matched twin waterfalls with a viewing deck in the Kanlaon foothills.
- Buenos Aires Mountain Resort — Old upland resort in Bago with river pools; Kipot Twin Falls is nearby.