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Quezon City bills itself as the ICT capital of the Philippines. [122] Quezon City was the first Local Government Unit (LGU) in the Philippines with a computerized real estate assessment and payment system, which was developed in 2015 that contains around 400,000 property units with capability to record payments.
Quezon, [a] officially the Province of Quezon (Filipino: Lalawigan ng Quezon) and historically known as Tayabas, is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Lucena , a highly urbanized city governed separately from the province, serves as its the provincial capital and its most populous city.
It is the largest city and capital of Quezon Province wherein it is geographically situated and grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority, but in terms of government and administration, the city is politically independent from that province. It is one of the proposed metropolitan area in the Philippines.
Tayabas is rich in history as it was the capital of Tayabas Province (Now in Quezon) during Spanish era. There are falls, caves, river, and hills/mountains to discover. Minor Basilica of Saint Michael Archangel is considered one of the oldest and biggest church in the Philippines Minor Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel
During these times too that Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon dreamed of a city that could become the future capital of the country, replacing Manila. In the summer of 1939 President Quezon contacted William Parsons and asked him to choose a new site for and then to design a new Philippine capital. Parsons arrived in June 1939 and ...
Fishing Capital of the Philippines After the city's fishing industry which is a major part of Navotas' economy. The status of the city as the "Fishing Capital of the Philippines" is represented on its city seal by a fish. [62] Olongapo: Zambales (geographically only) Central Luzon: City of Volunteers [63] [64] Paete: Laguna: Calabarzon
The Quezon Memorial Shrine is an art deco-themed monument designed by Federico Ilustre and was built during the 1950s – serving as the centerpiece of the Quezon Memorial Circle. The 66-meter (217 ft) shrine [1] representing Quezon's age when he died from tuberculosis stands on a thirty-six hectare elliptical lot. It houses an observation deck ...
Luzon (/ l uː ˈ z ɒ n / loo-ZON, Tagalog:) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.Located in the northern portion of the Philippine archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city.