Bacolod City is known as The City of Smiles, because of its local Rio Carnival-like MassKara Festival that features colorful masks with smiling faces. Located in Negros Occidental, many of its most affluent resident’s wealth date back to the Spanish era, when the sugar industry was a booming business during the colonial period. Remains of magnificent mansions such as the “Ruins” give you a glimpse of how the genteel class of the past used to live in Bacolod. Apart from the cultural and heritage attractions of Bacolod City, the food served at restaurants in Bacolod are on another level and are the highlights of a Bacolod tour, making the city one of the top Visayas tourist spots.

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