In God We Trust Tagudinians

The Municipality of Tagudin Tagudin is a 2nd  class municupality in province of Ilocos sur. Tagudin has 43 barrangays, tagudin is actually an interesting town that can give you history lesson and interesting trivia. It is the first town in ilocos sur when you are coming from manila via land travel. MYTHICAL ORIGIN There are two popular version of how the town of tagudin derived its name. One which is less known had it that long even before the spaniards set foot in the ares, the village was under the protection of an ancestral spirit named tagudin. This man spirit lived in promotiry of that hill overlooking the amburayan, exactly at the place where the Ilocos Sur  abutment of the dona alicia bridge spanning the amburayan, and kept watch over the town. So it was, that the village was known as the village of tagudin. The kore popular versiin derived that name tagudin from the native drying rack ("pagtagudan") where raw cotton ("sag-ot") was spread out and brushed int...

  The Municipality of  Tagudin Tagudin  is a 2nd class municipality in the Province of Ilocos Sur. Tagudin has 43 barrangays. Tagudin is actually an interesting town that can give you history lessons and interesting trivia. It is the first town in Ilocos when you are coming from Manila via land travel. Mythical Origin There are two popular versions of how the town of Tagudin ,  Ilocos Sur derived its name. One, which is less known, had it that long even before the Spaniards set foot in the area, the village was under the protection of an ancestral spirit named Tagudin . This man-spirit lived on the promontory of that hill overlooking the Amburayan, exactly at the place where the Ilocos abutment of the Doña Alicia Bridge spanning the Amburayan, and kept watch over the town. So it was, that the village was known as the village of Tagudin. The more popular version derived the name Tagudin from the native drying rack (“pagtagudan”) where raw cotton (“sag...