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Municipality in Quezon, Philippines
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It is an Art Deco mansion built by the renowned Filipino architect Juan Nakpil for the opulent Gala and Rodriguez families in 1930. It is one of the three houses in Sariaya declared a Heritage Home in 2008. It is open for prearranged guided tours and is also rented out as an events venue.
A 19th-century Beaux-Arts mansion built by a former governor of Quezon, Natalio Enriquez. It is declared a Heritage House by the Philippine government in 2008. The house is vacated.
A Barn-style Baroque church that forms the center of Sariaya's historic downtown. It was first built in 1599; the present stone church building was built in 1748, to replace one destroyed by earthquakes and flooding.
Don Catalino Rodriguez Ancestral House
The ancestral home of Don Catalino Rodriguez, built in Bahay na Bato (stone house) style. It was built in 1922.
An inactive volcano straddling the provinces of Laguna and Quezon. At , it is the highest mountain in the Calabarzon region, and a sacred monument for the Tagalog people. At the side of the mountain covered by Sariaya is the breached crater wall whose collapse in 1734 triggered the emptying of Banahaw's crater lake and a massive flood that destroyed Sariaya and forced its relocation to its present site.
Annual harvest festival held every May 15. Among the highlights is the Pinagong-eating contest, involving the rapid consumption of Quezon's own notoriously hard bread.
Pizza (house special, ham and cheese, Hawaiian, and pepperoni), sisig and shawarma. The location is small, and orders are done in a kiosk.
A branch of a provincial restaurant chain based in Lucban serving Quezon dishes such as pancit habhab, longganisa and hardinera and has an interior decoration inspired by the Pahiyas festival.
A bakery operating since 1982 that sells local delicacies such as pinagong, a hard but sweet bread, and broas, a meringue-like contraption sold in large metal cans.
Has a restaurant open 9AM-10PM.
By car
Sariaya is along the Maharlika Highway (Manila South Road, numbered Route 1/AH26) which also serves as the town's main street.
By jeepney
Jeepneys connect Sariaya with Tiaong, Dolores, and Candelaria, as well as Tayabas and Lucena cities, and their terminals are at the same location as the bus stops.
By train
Sariaya is also along the Philippine National Railways line running between San Pablo in Laguna and Lucena, the capital of Quezon.
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