Overview
Tagaytay & Taal
In the 1920’s General Emilio Aguinaldo often rode through Tagaytay on horseback, and it is through him that the story of how Tagaytay got its name is told. As the story goes: A soldier approached a boy and his father asking about the name of the place. The frightened son shouted to his father, “Taga, Itay!” which meant “Strike, Father!”, and the foreigner, misunderstanding the words, thought that this was what the area was called, thus giving birth to the name: Tagaytay.
In the midst of the tranquil waters of Taal Lake, Taal Volcano stands proud—a volcano within a lake, within a volcano within another lake. Through the volcano’s eruptions, the land that would come to be known as Tagaytay was formed.
