The Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway, alternatively known as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Road and formerly as Tagaytay–Tuy–Nasugbu Port Road, is a , two-to-four lane, secondary highway in the provinces of

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and

Batangas Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( tl, Lalawigan ng Batangas ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and La ...

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, that connects the city of

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and the municipality of Nasugbu in

. The entire road forms part of National Route 410 (N410) from

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and National Route 407 (N407) of the

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from Calaca to Nasugbu.

Route description

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The highway starts at Tagaytay Rotunda, where it intersects with

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and Tagaytay–Talisay Road in

. It then runs to the west, traversing

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, which also shares its border with

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along the highway,

, Nasugbu, Tuy, and again in Nasugbu. The highway's segment from Palico Rotonda to its western terminus in Nasugbu is also known as ''Palico-Nasugbu Highway'' or ''Tuy-Nasugbu Highway'', while its segment in Cavite is also known as ''Aguinaldo Highway''. According to the

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, its segment from Tagaytay Rotonda to the eastern end of Mahogany Avenue is part of the ''Tagaytay–Manila via Silang Road'', while its segment from there to Diokno Highway is officially named as ''Tagaytay-Batangas via Tuy Road''; the rest of the highway is officially named as is.

History

The highway originally existed as the Lumbangan–Palico (Nasugbu–Tuy) section of Batangas–Bauan–Nasugbu Road, an old road which linked Nasugbu with

. The section was constructed in the mid-1910s. A new road that connects Tuy to the newly-established city of

was later constructed in the 1930s and was made part of the highway. The latter also formed part of Highway 17 that linked

Imus Imus, officially the City of Imus ( fil, Lungsod ng Imus), is a 3rd class component city and ''de jure'' capital of the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 496,794 people. It is the ''de jure ...

with

. The entire stretch of the highway was also referred to as Tagaytay-Tuy-Nasugbu Port Road.

Intersections

References

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