Taal, Batangas

Taal, officially the Municipality of Taal (Tagalog: Bayan ng Taal), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it had a population of 61,559.

It is famous for its old ancestral houses, one particular ancestral house (now a museum) where Marcela Coronel Mariño de Agoncillo grew up in Taal, Batangas built in the 1770s by her grandparents, Don Andres Sauza Mariño and Doña Eugenia Diokno Mariño. The poblacion (town proper) is designated as a National Historical Landmark. It is also known as the balisong and barong tagalog capital of the Philippines. The town is home to hundreds of heritage structures dating from the Spanish colonial period. Scholars have been pushing for its inclusion in the UNESCOWorld Heritage List.