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SPANISH NAGCARLAN. Pre-Hispanic Nagcarlan was
headed by a datu named Gat Lakilaw. Franciscans
Juan de Plasencia and Diego Oropesa initiated the
NAGCARLAN CHURCH. According to folk legend,
town’s conversion to Christianity in 1578. Padre
Ana Kalang built a stone road between the
Tomas de Miranda, the man known to have planted
Nagcarlan Church and her stone house to make it
the first grains of her
easy for wheat
to gointothe
andcountry, officially
from the church.
founded the town as a Franciscan mission
Nagcarlan Church was dedicated to San inBartolome
1583.
Apostol and was first built of light materials in 1583
Historical highlights of Nagcarlan include de
by Padre Tomas de Miranda. The second church of
Plasencia’sbrick
firstand
Diccionario Hispano-Tagalog, which
stone was built in 1752 by Padre Cristobal
he wrote inTorres.
1579The andchurch
first known
was badly guidebook
damaged byfor fire in
effective and righteous governance for alcalde
1781. It was repaired by the stone bell tower was
mayors called Costumbrez
added. It was Padrede los Tagalog.
Vicente Velloc whoInin1595,
1845
Nagcarlan made
became anway
it the independent municipality
we see it today with
in Laguna Baroque
style.
Gaspar Cahupa as its first gobernadorcillo. Fr.
Cristobal Torres namedDE
CAMPOSANTO the town Nagcarlan
NAGCARLAN. in 1752
Padre Vicente
to honor the great female leader of the town,
Velloc was the builder of Nagcarlan’s Cemetery. Ana
Kalang. This is a one of a kind structure in the country. It
was built in 1845 to serve as an exclusive burial
Historical Background:
ground for Spanish friars. The cemetery is enclosed
by 240
According to theabove-ground
Municipal’scrypts embedded
profile, on the
the Spaniards
circular wall which is comparable to Paco
named the place Nagcarlan from the word
Cemetery.
Nagcanlong. Prior to the coming of the Spaniards, the
people of Nagcarlan
At the end ofhad beenwalk
red-brick living peacefully
is the in
chapel crowned
by a bell. The image of the Santo
groups called balangays. The balangay was headedEntierro was the
by Datu Gatfirst we’ve notice
Lakilaw. upon
It was one entering
of twothe chapel. Turing
barangays in
right from the entrance, we went down from a
the present-day Laguna; the other is the present
flight of stairs leading to the underground
town of Majayjay.
cemetery.
When news THEbroke
ICONIC out that white men
UNDERGROUND armedAccording
CEMETERY. with
rifles had arrived and made camp near the
to folk history, Padre Velloc also built thelake, the
people prepared themselves
underground for anytoeventualities.
passage leading five underground
They sent the children,
chapels women,
where solitary the old
masses and The
are held. the weak
to safer places, while some
underground ofwere
passages the men
said toguarded the
have continued
all the way to Mount Banahaw.
way from the Labak region. But as the SpaniardsThese passages
ascended to were sealed offaccompanied
Nagcarlan and the locationby
remains
someunknown.
Another
Filipinos acting as legend
scouts,was told
the that the
vigilant men underground
of
crypt served as the subterranean
Nagcarlan were no match to the conquistadores who passageway
used guns.used
The by men AnaofKalang on herrun
the village waytotothethe church
Talahibing from
Riverherand house.
hid behind the tall cogon grass
when they heard the burst of the guns of their
enemies. The Filipino scouts who were with the
Spaniards described what the men of the village did
as "nagkanlong sa talahiban." Since then, the place
was called Nagkanlong until the Spaniards called it
Nagcarlan.
The town's conversion to Christianity began in 1578
and it formally became a pueblo in 1583, under a
Franciscan friar.