Lal-lo's bid for cityhood

THE website of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia, which has its present seat in Vigan, narrates that when Pope Clement VIII created the Diocese of Nueva Segovia in 1595, notwithstanding the fact that Vigan was the oldest town created in the north, the See of the Diocese was at Lal-lo, then called Nueva Segovia, that it acknowledges as having been a "flourishing settlement while Vigan was only then a pueblo, a town."

Clearly then, there was a marked difference in the status of Lal-lo and that of a pueblo.