Talisay City is very known to INASAL - a roasted crispy pig with taste of star anise; also beach resorts and swimming pools; lots of mountain parks for recreation and leisure; natural attractions of Igutan Cave found in Barrangay Jaclupan; talisay landing In 1849, it was converted into a municipality with Silverio Fernandez as its first gobernadorcillo and Pedro Labuca as captain. Some accounts cl
aim that Talisay got its name from the Magtalisay trees which are endemic in certain areas of the municipality, while others claim that Talisay got its name from a town in Spain. During both the American colonial period and World War II, Talisay served as a haven of colonial military forces. The municipality served as the center of guerrilla intelligence operations for the Philippine resistance movement in Cebu during World War II. liberation forces landed on the beaches of Talisay on March 28, 1945, and were helped together with the Philippine Commonwealth forces and the Cebuano guerrillas, an event that marked the eventual surrender of Japanese forces on Cebu. In 2000, the municipality of Talisay was converted into a city.[1] The municipality is now linked to Cebu City via the new South Coastal Highway from Lawaan, opened in 2004. This has brought some recent inward investment in the form of sub-divisions, some hastily planned and plagued by problems. Conflict has occurred between the residents of the mountain barangay of Maghaway and those of Crown Asia's Azienda Milan and Venezia sub-divisions. According to the National Statistics Office in its 2000 report, some 70 percent of the population of Talisay belongs to the urban poor. Talisay remains an important center for the production of blasting caps used in dynamite. Talisay City is administratively subdivided into 22 barangays:
* Biasong
* Bulacao
* Candulawan
* Camp IV
* Cansojong
* Dumlog
* Jaclupan
* Lagtang
* Lawaan I
* Lawaan II
* Lawaan III
* Linao
* Maghaway
* Manipis
* Mohon
* Poblacion
* Pooc
* San Isidro
* San Roque
* Tabunok
* Tangke
* Tapul
* Tulay
