Tagaytay City beckons with its ‘Feast of Love’

TAGAYTAY, Cavite — This prime tourist destination city is celebrating its traditional “Pista ng Pag- ibig” ( Feast of Love) Month, showcasing simple but lively and memorable activities expected to attract 1 million local and foreign visitors.

Many of these visitors are likely couples promenading the ridge city to see the romantic panoramic view of the one- of-a-kind Taal volcano and lake, dine and enjoy the area’s serenity and fresh and invigorating cool climate this Hearts’ Month.

The city, teeming with parks and resorts, restaurants, hotels and rest houses, is the favorite place of young and elderly couples to relax, reflect, and say “I love you” to each other, especially on Valentine’s Day.

Observers tagged the city as “Love Capital of the Philippines” with its vast scenes and the recreational areas and the visiting couples, families, and children.

The City Information Office said that the administration under Mayor Agnes Delgado-Tolentino set the Holy Mass for the Feast Day of Our Lady, Mother of Fair Love and the traditional mass wedding on Valentine’s Day (Sunday), this time at the Tagaytay International Convention Center where at least 40 couples would exchange “I dos.”

Tagaytay is the only city in Cavite province which has consistently rendered the mass wedding every Hearts’ Day through the years.

The administration also set today the talent competition for the best “Father and Son” in the city and “Gan- dang Lola” (Beautiful Grandmother), a contest for women residents 60 years old and above at the Tolentino Sports Complex in Barangay Sungay West.

Expected to grace the activities with the mayor are her husband, Cavite 7th District Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino, other city officials, and guests.

Among the favorite spots in the city are the Sky Ranch Amusement and Recreation Park in Barangay Kaybagal South, Tagaytay Highlands in Calabuso, Picnic Grove Complex in Sungay East, People's Park in the Sky in Dapdap West and East, the highest point in Cavite where the image of Our Lady, Mother of Fair Love is; and the so-called One Destination area or the “Sky City Strip” of restaurants and bars along the more than six kilometer- stretch ridge on Aguinaldo Highway.