I Love Santa Cruz, Marinduque

19/09/2025

LIVE: Sunset busking session with Anaxtcsha Band at the Morion Statue

19/09/2025

Join us once more at The Morion Statue as we greet the weekend sunset with live music from homegrown band Anaxtcsha!

17/09/2025

We are counting the days!

99 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS and we are starting to get excited for the annual Santa Cruz, Marinduque holiday festivities! Stay tuned for this year's events and activities!

11/09/2025

🎶✨ Sunset Busking Sessions ✨🎶

This Friday, September 12, join us once again at The Morion Statue as we welcome the weekend with live music by Ian & Ace. 🌅🎸🎤

Come for the sunset, stay for the sound, and let the rhythm carry you into the night. 🌊 Your presence (and your tips 💖) will help keep our local music alive.

11/09/2025

REDISCOVER THE HEART OF THE PHILIPPINES — WHERE CULTURE, HERITAGE, AND TRAVEL CONVERGE

We invite you to the REDISCOVER Santa Cruz Online Masterclass — a four-part learning journey into the history, traditions, and futures of the Philippines’ cultural heartland.

👥 This masterclass is for:

✈️ Filipinos overseas or children of overseas Filipinos who want to reconnect with the culture and stories of home.

📖 Researchers and graduate students in tourism, culture, and heritage studies (Philippines and abroad) who need grounded data and local insights.

🌱 Travel enthusiasts searching for authentic, meaningful journeys.

🎭 Cultural workers and creatives who want to link practice with research and development.

📌 PROGRAM DETAILS

🗓 Saturdays, 4:00–7:00 PM (Philippine Time)
📖 4 Sessions × 3 Hours Each
🎁 Free E-Book on Santa Cruz, Marinduque
📜 Certificate of Participation

💡 Topics Include:

1️⃣ Unpacking the Moriones/Moryonan Heritage
2️⃣ Santa Cruz History, Heritage, and Gastronomy
3️⃣ Deep Dive into the Marcopper Mining Tragedy
4️⃣ Local Travel Futures: Emerging Trends and Issues

💳 Registration Fee: PHP 700.00
👉 Register here: https://forms.gle/odderjF93URia5jN7

🌱 Where your fee goes: By joining, you directly support local artists, musicians, and cultural workers in Santa Cruz, Marinduque, fueling creative industries and community-based development rooted in heritage.

💡 Who We Are
The I Love Santa Cruz Collective is a community-driven initiative in Santa Cruz, Marinduque, working to strengthen culture, heritage, and the creative industries as pathways for local development. Through research, art, and tourism, we connect our town’s stories with Filipinos and friends of the Philippines around the world.

08/09/2025

This World Tourism Month, I Love Santa Cruz Collective invites you to rediscover Santa Cruz, Marinduque — slowly, deeply, meaningfully. ✨🌍

In Santa Cruz, travel is not about rushing from one attraction to another. It’s about weaving yourself into local life: sitting with artisans as they thread buntal bags by hand, drifting through mangroves before arriving at a quiet beach, or tasting meals grown and prepared just a few steps from where you sit.

Choose from curated journeys that unfold at the pace of discovery:

🧺 Coastal traditions and village weaving
🌊 Island camps and lagoon explorations
🎭 Art workshops and Morion cultural immersions
🌿 Upland farm stays and mountain sunsets
🍃 Farm-to-table dining and river walks
⛰️ Cave treks and waterfall dips

📌 Each tour is designed to be flexible — a mix of culture, history, and nature balanced with the quiet spaces that slow travelers crave. Transfers, meals, and accommodations with our partner resorts are included, so your only task is to immerse.

👉 Book your rediscovery with I Love Santa Cruz Collective — and let Santa Cruz reveal itself, one slow moment at a time.

to share our Santa Cruz: All Yours to Rediscover

08/09/2025

✨👑 Step into history 👑✨
Ever wondered what it feels like to dress like a Roman centurion, a queen of antiquity, or a figure from the Moriones tradition? Now you can!

📸 Rent a costume for your Morion Statue Pictorial and bring the ancients to life.

👕 Costume Rental:
➡️ PHP 50.00 – Morion Mask and/or Historical Recreation Costume
➡️ PHP 150.00 – Full Moriones Regalia and Mask

📍 Available when visiting Santa Cruz — All Yours to Rediscover!

05/09/2025

05/09/2025

READ: Santa Cruz may seem understated compared to destinations that offer immediate spectacle. Yet its promise lies in that very understatement. For those with time — a year between studies, a sabbatical from work, or a long holiday to rediscover balance — the town offers a journey measured not in kilometers but in encounters.

Here, slow tourism does not arrive as an imported slogan. It is already inscribed in the rhythms of fishing before dawn, weaving fibers strand by strand, tending backyard gardens, and painting under waterfalls. What remains is for travelers to meet these rhythms, to allow themselves to stay long enough for Santa Cruz to unfold.

For those willing to linger, the town reveals that the richest journeys are not about how far one travels, but about how deeply one dwells.

In Santa Cruz, the future of travel may not be movement at all, but belonging.

In Santa Cruz, the future of travel may not be movement at all, but belonging.

04/09/2025

Vibe with us once again tomorrow for another Sunset Busking Session featuring Anaxtscha for the second time at the Morion Statue stage!

02/09/2025

Santa Cruz’s appeal is subtler, slower, and perhaps more enduring. To come here is not to chase a trend but to step into a community that continues, with or without your visit. And maybe that’s the point: Santa Cruz is not Siargao, and it doesn’t need to be.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:

Santa Cruz is not Siargao. You won’t find sprawling bars thumping electronic beats until dawn, nor waves lined with foreign surfers racing for a perfect break. And yet, the absence of those things is precisely the point. Here, tourism is measured not by volume but by rhythm — the rhythm of commu...