From the older basis, Tagaytay is from the word TAGA that means “cut” and ITAY which means “father”. A father brought his son to a wild forest to hunt. The animal they are pursuing turned around and start to attack the father. The fear that the child feels force him to utter the words “ TAGA, ITAY!” Which means to cut the animal down. People and other hunters around them hear the words that the child shouted. Since then the place where called Tagaytay.

     During the revolution on 1896, Tagaytay became the hideaway or so called hideout of the revolutionaries from different provinces around Tagaytay. They chose to hide at the forest of Tagaytay because of the wild animals that can protect them from the invaders. They called theirselves as “MANANAGAYTAY” that means travelling around the place of Tagaytay. At the outbreak on the Second World War, military supplies and personnel’s are been drop at Tagaytay through air.

     On June 21, 1938, Tagaytay became chartered city with the passage and signing by the late President Manuel L. Quezon of Commonwealth Act. No. 338. Today the city of Tagaytay is one of the prioritize city for tourism development. Likewise, the city has been identified an the CALABARZON as a tourist center.

 

Reference: http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/History.html