Captivating Capiz "The Beauty of Roxas City"

The City of Roxas, once known as the municipality of Capiz is the capital of the province of Capiz. Roxas city is composed of fourty seven (47) barangays of which eighten (18) are urban and twenty-nine are rural. The first appointed mayor was Lorenzo Acuña Arnaldo followed by Ramon Berjamin Blanco, Jose Dorado and Juliano Alovera Alba. In 1959, Lorenzo Acuña Arnaldo again became the head of the city as the first elected mayor. The next mayor was Teodoro Roxas Arcenas who was succeeded by Juliano Alovera Alba who was also the representative of the First District of Capiz at the House of Congress when Martial Law was declared. The incumbent mayor of Roxas City is Mayor Vicente B. Bermejo, who is the former governor of the province of Capiz. Roxas City is known us Seafoods Capital of the Philippines because it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the country. One municipality of capiz is Tapaz and it was located in the 3rd district of capiz.

Roxas City had been recognized and got an award for being cleanest and greenest city of Western Visayas in Gawad Pangulo sa kapaligiran or Cleanliness and Environmental contest. Many people from different cities have visited and stayed here for a vacation because of captivating beauty of the City. The clean and fresh air of Roxas City is one of the attraction for tourism who stayed here for their vacation and holiday. Roxas City is very peaceful and the people are very hospitable that you can spend your time without any hesitation to visit the beautiful places here like Baybay beach, Hotels, and Restaurants. The City of Roxas have lots of activities that can be proud of and it is celebrated every year. The Sinadya sa Halaran is celebrated every first week of December in commemoration of the founding of the city and it is followed by the Diwal festival which signifies the city as a "Seafoods Capital of the Philippines". Roxas City had been celebrated the Aswang festival that have got a big impact from the audience who witnessed that events especially from the community of Roxas City. There's alots of people who disagreed to have that as an tourist attraction because of some reason. some people said that this is not good for the tourism because this would be a reason for them to hesitate to visit here in roxas. But even in some issues come up from that event the roxas city still one of the best city among the city of western visayas who really admired by the people and tourism thats what we called the "Captivating Capiz".

One of the tourist attraction here in roxas city are the beautiful places such as Baybay beach resort and other beaches that attract to the people who visited here because of fresh air and kindly people around in the city. But the most people liked was the beautiful hotels and restaurants like Casa Felisa Hotel, Roxas President's Inn , Baia Norte Beach Club, Image Palace Hotel, San Antonio Resort Village that serves delicious and quality foods to their customer and the nice treatment among the employees that really admired by the tourism. As a residence of roxas city, I'm very proud that i lived in this place because it is a place where you can relax and feel comportable and safe in times of your vacation and trip.