Poctol, San Juan, Batangas

San Juan, officially the Municipality of San Juan (Tagalog: Bayan ng San Juan), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 115,118 people. It is recognized for its baroque church, ancestral houses, the Pinagbayanan excavation—considered the most significant archeological site in the municipality, and the popular Laiya Beach.

Batangas Eastern Colleges (BEC), formerly known as Batangas Eastern Academy (BEA), is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian school in San Juan, Batangas, Philippines. It was founded on March 16, 1940, by Mercedes S. De Villa, the descendant of the town's founder Camilo Perez, and Iñigo A. Javier, the founder of Tayabas Western Academy. It is the oldest high school in San Juan as well as being the oldest private educational institution in the town. Its school ID number is 401647.

San Juan Nepomuceno Parish Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the municipality of San Juan, Batangas, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Lipa. Located at Padre Burgos Street in Poblacion, adjacent to three schools: Batangas Eastern Colleges, Joseph Marello Institute, and San Juan Elementary School, this is the second church of San Juan after the old church ruins, located in Pinagbayanan, which was destroyed by floods in 1883.

Joseph Marello Institute, Inc (Oblates of St. Joseph), also known as JMI is a private Catholic School (Elementary, Secondary School) located at P. Burgos St., Poblacion, San Juan, Batangas. It is managed by the Oblates of St. Joseph, a congregation founded by St. Joseph Marello. Its school ID number is 401650.

San Antonio, officially the Municipality of San Antonio (Tagalog: Bayan ng San Antonio), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,891 people. Located in the westernmost part of the province, it is one of the municipalities that traverses Quezon and Batangas. It has an efficient road system, the National Road linking Tiaong, Quezon and Lipa City through passing Padre Garcia. San Antonio is 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Lucena and 105 kilometres (65 mi) from Manila. San Antonio is then known as Buliran, one of the progressive and component barangay of Tiaong, Quezon covered with thick cogon grasses and Buri trees. It is situated in the western part of Tiaong, its mother municipality, and bounded on the south by the Municipalities of Padre Garcia and Rosario in Batangas. Its history was known through the knowledge of many of its residents. Considering its abundance and economic opportunity, the place was occupied by the Batangueño from the western part of the barrio and became the pioneers and witnessed the pristine beauty of the place and later in cultivated and tilled its virgin and fertile land. It produces bottled Sinturis Juice, pasteurized freshly squeezed Philippine orange mixed with sugar, Malagkit Festival with the different kakanin made from malagkit. It also has several resorts and leisure farms that serve as favorite getaways for fun and family get together. It is composed of 20 barangays, each headed by a barangay captain and seven councilmen duly elected. It is a third-class municipality having total area of 5,400 hectares (13,000 acres).

Mount Mayabobo is a cinder cone situated at the base of Mount Banahaw, in Barangay Mayabobo, Candelaria, Quezon in Luzon island, Philippines. Approximately with a height of 300 metres (980 ft), it is a tourist destination for local residents of Candelaria and nearby municipalities, since it has a telecommunication site at its summit for sight-seeing and hiking.

Gala–Rodriguez house is a house designated by the National Historical Institute of the Philippines as one of the three heritage houses in Sariaya, due to its notable historical and cultural significance. Designed by Juan Nakpil in the early 1930s, it was owned by one of the most distinguished couples in Quezon , Dr. Isidro Rodriguez and Doña Gregoria Gala. The house is located in Rizal Street along with other opulent houses owned by the illustrados of old Sariaya.

Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church, also known as the Diocesan Shrine of Santo Cristo de Burgos and commonly known as Sariaya Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Sariaya, Quezon, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Lucena. Based on the historical marker of St. Francis of Assisi Church, the first structure was constructed in 1599. The second church was built in 1605 but was replaced by a third church in 1641. In 1703, the town was transferred to Lumangbayan but the earthquakes and floods of 1743 destroyed the church and the town caused the people to transfer to the present site. The present church was built in 1748 during the term of two Spanish friars, namely Fr. Martin de Talavera and Fr. Joaquin Alapont.

Don Catalino Rodriguez Ancestral House, also known as Villa Sariaya, is one of the three designate heritage houses by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in Sariaya, Quezon. It was owned by Don Catalino Rodriguez, Sariaya’s town Presidente (Mayor during the American occupation period) from 1908 to 1909. The house occupies an entire block near the church park. Its main entrance faces south along Calle Daliz and is bounded by Calle Rizal on the west and Quezon Avenue (formerly Calle Talavera) on the east. This house has already been converted into a museum.

Sariaya ([sɐɾˈjajɐ]), officially the Municipality of Sariaya (Tagalog: Bayan ng Sariaya), is a municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 172,018 people making it the second most populous local government unit (LGU) in Quezon after the capital city of Lucena, and the most populous municipality in the said province. As the only Mount Banahaw town in both Quezon and Laguna Provinces that has a sea coast, the town is famous for its pristine beach resorts and nature-trekking activities that lead adventurous hikers to the peak of mythical Mount Banahaw. With more than a hundred of cultural properties and ancestral houses mostly built in Art Deco architecture within the municipality, Sariaya is considered as the Heritage Town of Quezon and the Art Deco Capital of Southern Luzon. This heritage town has been branded by various cultural experts as a 'cultural gem worthy of a UNESCO designation.' The local government of the municipality with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts of the Philippines were designated to work for the heritage town's inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Tiaong ([ˈtjaʔɔŋ]), officially the Municipality of Tiaong (Tagalog: Bayan ng Tiaong), is a municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 106,265 people. Tiaong is 35 kilometers (22 mi) from Lucena and 95 kilometers (59 mi) from Manila.

Calabarzon (officially stylized in all caps; English: ; Tagalog: [kalɐbaɾˈsɔn]), sometimes referred to as Southern Tagalog (Tagalog: Timog Katagalugan) and designated as Region IV‑A, is an administrative region in the Philippines. It is situated southeast of Metro Manila and is bordered by Manila Bay and the South China Sea to the west, Lamon Bay and the Bicol Region to the east, Tayabas Bay and the Sibuyan Sea to the south, and Central Luzon to the north. Comprising five provinces—Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon (hence the acronym)—and one highly urbanized city, Lucena, it is the most populous region in the Philippines, according to the 2020 census, with over 16.1 million inhabitants. It is also the country's second most densely populated region, after the National Capital Region. Calamba in Laguna serves as the regional center, while Antipolo in Rizal is the most populous city in the region. Before its creation as a separate region, Calabarzon, along with the Mimaropa region, the province of Aurora, and parts of Metro Manila, comprised the historical region known as Southern Tagalog until they were separated in 2002 through Executive Order No. 103. The history of the area now known as Calabarzon dates back to early historic times. Local historians believe that three of the 10th century place-names mentioned in the Philippines' earliest known written document, the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, pertain to regions or polities (bayan) along the shores of Laguna de Bay; and some Filipino-Chinese scholars believe the 10th century trading polity known as Ma-i may actually have been the predecessor of the present day town of Bay, Laguna. Since the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, the region has served as home to some of the most important Philippine historical figures, including the Philippine national hero, José Rizal, who was born in Calamba.