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The fiesta is part and bundle of Filipino culture.

Through good times and bad times, the fiesta must go
on. Each city and barrio has at least one local festival
of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so
that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in
the country. But the major and most elaborate festival
of all is Christmas, a season celebrated with all the
display and show the fun-loving Filipino can handle.

Heres the festival for

Selective Month of

January February March

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January
Feast Of The Black Nazarene
Biniray
Lingayen Gulf Landing
Ati-atihan
Daro Sinulog
Sinulog
Caracol Sa Makati
Vigan Town Fiesta
Apribada
Dinagyang

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 Feast of the
Black
Nazarene
Quiapo Church,
Manila
January 9

People go to Quiapo
Church, Manila to
honor the miraculous
wooden black statue
of Jesus Christ carried
by male devotees
during the
procession.
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Biniray
Romblon
January 9

A festival parade in the sea followed by a celebration in Romblon

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Lingayen Gulf Landing
Lingayen, Pangasinan
January 9

Held in Lingayen Pangasinan, it commemorates the landing of General

MacArthurs Allied Forces in Luzon in 1945.

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 Ati-atihan Kalibo, Aklan
Third Week
The Ati-Atihan Festival
honors the 13th century land deal
between 10 migrating Bornean
chieftains and the indigenous Ati
King Marikudo. It also honors the
town patron, the infant Sto. Nio.
The constant, rhythmic pounding of
drums get to you, and before you
know it you are on the street,
shuffling your feet, shaking your
head, waving your hands - and
joining thousands of soot-blacked,
gaily-costumed revelers in an ancient
ritual of mindless happiness. A
familiar battle cry reaches your ears,
and amidst all this bewilderment you
remember where you are: Kalibo,
Aklan. "Viva, Sto. Nio!" The Ati-
Atihan celebration is boomed in
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many parts of the country.
 Daro
Sinulog
Dumaguete
Negros
Third Week

A moving
pageantry
depicting Holy
Childs
conversation of
pagan tribes.

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Cebu City
third sunday of January

Cebu City's fiesta of fiestas. Distinguished by its

unusual two-steps-forward-and-one-step-backward
shuffle, thus simulating the Holy Child of the shores,
the Sinulog is a century-old tradition observed in the
part of Visayas region. The prayer-dance is harmonized
to the beat of drums and shouts of "Pit Seor! Viva Sto.
Nio!. Feel free to dance with the best of them,
enjoying all the way to the grand final presentation at
the Cebu City Sports Center.

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Makati City,
Caracol sa Makati
Manila
Last Sunday in
January

Groups dress
as endangered
flora and fauna
to express the
need to
preserve and
conserve our
natural
heritage.
Caracol is a
Spanish term
for snail.
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Fourth Week
The highlight of the week long celebration is the
procession in honor of Vigans patron saint, St. Paul the
Apostle.

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 Apribada
Donsol,
Sorsogon
A celebration
welcoming the
whale shark
(butanding)
season and the
blessing it will
bring.

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Iloilo City
Fourth Weekend
Merry mayhem breaks loose in
Iloilo City during this weekend,
when Ilonggos leave everything
behind to join in the fiesta of the
year. All shyness are dropped:
boring everyday clothes are
exchanged for "Ati" warrior
costumes and black body paint.
Shields and "weapons" are held
amidst the pounding rhythm of
drums, the costumed Ilonggos
put their best feet forward in
celebration of Dinagyang!

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February
Hot Air Ballon
Feast Of Our Lady Of Candles
Festival Of Hearts
Laoag City And Province (Pamulinawen)
San Fernando, La Union
Tinagba
International Bamboo Organ
Tawo Tawo
Dia De Zamboanga
Panagbenga
Santiago City Arts Month
Sambalilo
Suman Festival
Kalilangan
Itik-itik
Sibug-sibug Festival
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Hot air balloon
Clark Special Economic Zone
Early February

An annual tournament of balloonist from various countries.

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Feast of our Lady of Candles
Jaro, Ilo-ilo

The largest and the most wealthy religious pageantry in Western Visayas.
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Festival Of Hearts
Tanjay City
month long

Major festival of romance to highlight

Valentines Day.

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 Laoag City and
Province(Pamulinawen)

Laoag City
February 7 to 10

Features a colorful
floral parade and
celebrates the Feast of
William, the toems
patron saint.

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San Fernando, La Union
La Union
Februray 7 to 10

Musical extravaganzas, trade fairs and pageants featuring show

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business and celebrity personalities.
Tinagba

Bicol
February 11
A harvest festival in which
coincides with the feast day
of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Main feature is a parade of
colorful and grandiosely
decorated bull carabao carts
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 International
Bamboo Organ

Las Pias

A 10 day cultural event

which features
international classical
performers and utilizes
the ancient bamboo
organ of St. Josephs
Parish Church, Las
Pias.

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 Tawo-tawo
Bayawan City
February 17

Giant, paper mache scarecrows highlight their roles as guardians of

Bayawan City crops.

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Dia De
Zamboanga

February26

A celebration of cultural and

religious harmony between
Christians and Muslims in
this most cosmopolitan of
Philippine cities. Marks the
date when Zamboanga
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 Panagbenga
Baguio City
Fourth Week

It's flower season in

the city of Pines - perfect
timing for an all-out fiesta
in the streets. The Baguio
folk take a break on these
days to revel in the cool
climate and the unique
culture of the city. Multi-
hued costumes are worn,
mimicking the various
blooms of the highland
region (or any of its 11
ethnic tribes). These are
flowerbeds - masked, of
course, as the Panagbenga
parade floats.
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 Santiago City Arts Month
Santiago City
February 1 28

Folk traditions in music, dance and play and

a painting contest featuring home grown
talents.
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 Sambalilo

Paranaque City and

Metro Manila
February 1 28

Paraaque and
Metro Manila
celebrates cityhood
with dance contests.
Sambalilo

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 Suman Festival
Town of Baler in Aurora Province
Third Week

The festival highlights the varied rice cake delicacies.

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General Santos City
Fourth Week Pasig City
last Sunday
A celebration of the harmonious co-
existence of numerous cultural and Celebrates the native duck (itik).
religious communities.

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Sibug-Sibug Festival

Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

February 17 to 26

Sibug Sibug Festival is celebrated during their foundation day on

the province of Sibugay on February 26, with colorful Ethnic Street
dancing with rituals illustrating good harvest, wedding and healing
rituals. During the festival, it endorses its number one product
which is the oyster or talaba in tagalong which has been known to
be the biggest, juiciest, and meatiest oysters
Philippines in the country.
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March

Kaamulan
Arya Abra
Sandugo
Araw Ng Dabaw
Pintados De Pasi
Homonhon Landing
Mt. Manunggal
Sinigayan
First Mass In The Philippines

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Kaaluman
Malaybalay, Bukidnon
March 3 - 7

Expect the Bukidnon to go

tribal from the first to the
second week of March, when
the streets of Malaybalay take
on that familiar fiesta theme.
Banners, banderitas, and beer
will be standard, as well as the
sweet, haunting sound of
native music. An early
morning pamuhat ritual kicks
off the festivities, to be
followed by an ethnic food
fest, trade fairs, and a lot of
native dancing.
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Arya Abra
Abra Province
March 7-10

Celebrates the founding of Abra Province with a variety of

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Sandugo
Tagbilaran, Bohol
Month-long (movable)

Highlighted every 16
March by re-enactment
of the Blood Compact
between Spain's Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi and
Datu Sik|tuna, which
helped forge friendly
relations between the
two countries.

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Araw ng Dabaw Pintados De Pasi
March 10-16 March 14-16

The celebration of Davao's Depicts the history of the Passi City and
Foundation Day as a chartered city. how it got its name.

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Homonhon Landing
Southeastern Samar
March 16

A pageant by the seashore re-enacting the

discovery of the Philippines by
Ferdinand Magellan.

Mt. Manunggal
Central Cebu
March 16-17

A Mountain trek, which Darks the

anniversary of the tragic death of President
Ramon Magsaysay, whose plane crashed on
the mountain.
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Sinigayan
Sagas, Negros Occidental
March 19

Named after the native seashell

(sigay). Shell craft art is
featured during the festival.

Sinigayan

First Mass In The Philippines

Limasawa Island, Southern Leyte
March 31

Features a street pageant by the different

municipalities.
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 Lenten Festival Of Herbal
Preparation Agoo Semana Santa
Easter Saturday Agoo, La Union

Secret rites of herbalists from the Features a parade of carriages and

Visayas and Mindanao, who gather in a Penitential Procession of
San Antonio, Siquijor, for the ceremony women, dressed in black.
know as Tang Alap, the combining of
medicinal herbs.
EASTER
Moriones
Semana Santa Salubong
Iguig, Cagayan Angono, Rizal
HoIy Week
Celebrates the reunion of the
Pilgrims flock to the 11 hectare Risen Christ with the Virgin
Calvary Hills to meditate on the Mary.
passion and death of Jesus christ.

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Moriones
Marinduque
Easter Sunday

The island of Marinduque prides

itself in being the "Lenten Capital of
the Philippines", and it is easy to
understand why. Come the seven
days of Holy Week, the people of the
island take part in the age-old ritual
of the "Moriones". Colorful warrior
costumes are worn topped with
finely carved masks portraying the
violent Roman soldiers of Christ's
time. All these are done to show the
story of the conversion of
Longuinus, the centurion who
stabbed Jesus' side - and his
subsequent beheading.

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