[3] Alicia, the old town of Angadanan, is known for the Pagay Festival Balitok Ti Alicia and its famous historical landmark, the Our Lady of Atocha Church completed and inaugurated in 1849 which was officially declared by the Philippine Department of Tourism as a national religious tourist destination in the Philippines.

Along with three of their children (except Tomás, a soldier, and Victoria, who later became First Lady for her father), Doña Alicia was one of many civilians massacred by Japanese occupiers on 9 February 1945 during the Battle of Manila.

In the 19th century, the Spaniards decided to move Angadanan again six kilometers further east along the Cagayan River to facilitate better transportation links and to secure the town from repeated raids by the Igorots and Gaddangs.

Part of the reason for the separation was that Alicia lay alongside the national highway network, which led to a more flourishing economy than its mother settlement.

The entire Cagayan Valley was one large province which the Spaniards called La Provincia del Valle de Cagayan, but divided into two new provinces in 1839 by the Spanish conquistadors.

It was placed under the jurisdiction of a governor with the capital seat at Ilagan City, where it remains at the present.

The municipality is located in an area of predominantly flat and fertile land in the Cagayan Valley that is surrounded by the Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Great Sierra Madre to the east, and the Cordillera Mountain Range to the west.

Manuel Mora, OP wrote that "Angadanan has a convent of bricks, though not totally finished.

The church and convent as seen today in the town of Alicia, beautiful and antique, was built by Fr.

The church is known for its antique Castilian architectural design and can be found along the Maharlika Highway and is accessible by land transport.

As a municipality in the Province of Isabela, government officials in the provincial level are voted by the electorates of the town.

Alicia, belonging to the third legislative district of the province of Isabela, currently represented by Hon.

[29] The Schools Division of Isabela governs the town's public education system.