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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.

Here’s the festival forSelective Month of

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February

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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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Quiapo Church, ManilaJanuary 9

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

Feast of the Black

Nazarene


RomblonJanuary 9

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

Biniray


Lingayen, PangasinanJanuary 9

Held in Lingayen Pangasinan, it commemorates the landing of General MacArthur’s Allied Forces in Luzon in 1945.

Lingayen Gulf Landing


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. Niño. 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. Niño!" The Ati-Atihan celebration is boomed in many parts of the country.

Ati-atihan Kalibo, AklanThird Week


Daro SinulogDumaguete NegrosThird Week

A moving pageantry depicting Holy Child’s conversation of pagan tribes.


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 Señor! Viva Sto. Niño!”. Feel free to dance with the best of them, enjoying all the way to the grand final presentation at the Cebu City Sports Center.

SinulogCebu Citythird sunday of January


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Makati City,ManilaLast 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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Caracol sa Makati


Fourth WeekThe highlight of the week long celebration is the procession in honor of Vigan’s patron saint, St. Paul the Apostle.

Vigan Town Fiesta


Donsol, Sorsogon

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

Apribada


DinagyangIloilo CityFourth 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!


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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Clark Special Economic ZoneEarly February

An annual tournament of balloonist from various countries. Features aerosport shows, kite flying, games, live bands and exhibitions.

Hot air balloon


Jaro, Ilo-ilo

The largest and the most wealthy religious pageantry in Western Visayas.

Feast of our Lady of Candles


Festival Of HeartsTanjay Citymonth long

Major festival of romance to highlight Valentine’s Day.


Laoag City and Province(Pamulinawen)

Laoag CityFebruary 7 to 10

Features a colorful floral parade and celebrates the Feast of William, the toem’s patron saint.


La UnionFebruray 7 to 10

Musical extravaganzas, trade fairs and pageants featuring show business and celebrity personalities.

San Fernando, La Union


BicolFebruary 11A 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

Tinagba


Las PiñasA 10 day cultural event which features international classical performers and utilizes the ancient bamboo organ of St. Joseph’s Parish Church, Las Piñas.

International Bamboo Organ


Tawo-tawoBayawan City February 17

Giant, paper mache scarecrows highlight their roles as guardians of Bayawan City crops.


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 became a city.


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.

Panagbenga


Santiago City February 1 – 28

Folk traditions in music, dance and play and a painting contest featuring home grown talents.

Santiago City Arts Month


Sambalilo

Paranaque City and Metro Manila February 1 – 28

Parañaque and Metro Manila celebrates cityhood with dance contests.

Sambalilo


Suman FestivalTown of Baler in Aurora ProvinceThird Week

The festival highlights the varied rice cake delicacies.


General Santos CityFourth Week

A celebration of the harmonious co-existence of numerous cultural and religious communities.

Pasig Citylast Sunday

Celebrates the native duck (itik).

Kalilangan Itik-itik


Ipil, Zamboanga SibugayFebruary 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 it’s number one product which is the oyster or talaba in tagalong which has been known to be the biggest, juiciest, and meatiest oysters in the country.

Sibug-Sibug Festival



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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KaalumanMalaybalay, BukidnonMarch 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.


Arya AbraAbra ProvinceMarch 7-10

Celebrates the founding of Abra Province with a variety of events, including raft and horse races.


SandugoTagbilaran, BoholMonth-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.


Araw ng DabawMarch 10-16

The celebration of Davao's Foundation Day as a chartered city.

Pintados De PasiMarch 14-16

Depicts the history of the Passi City and how it got its name.


Homonhon LandingSoutheastern SamarMarch 16

A pageant by the seashore re-enacting the discovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan.

Mt. ManunggalCentral CebuMarch 16-17

A Mountain trek, which Darks the anniversary of the tragic death of President Ramon Magsaysay, whose plane crashed on the mountain.


SinigayanSagas, Negros OccidentalMarch 19

Named after the native seashell (sigay). Shell craft art is featured during the festival.

First Mass In The PhilippinesLimasawa Island, Southern LeyteMarch 31

Features a street pageant by the different municipalities.

Sinigayan


Agoo Semana Santa Agoo, La Union

Features a parade of carriages and a Penitential Procession of women, dressed in black.

Salubong Angono, Rizal

Celebrates the reunion of the Risen Christ with the Virgin Mary.

Lenten Festival Of Herbal Preparation

Easter Saturday

Secret rites of herbalists from the Visayas and Mindanao, who

gather in San Antonio, Siquijor, for the ceremony know as Tang

Alap, the combining of medicinal herbs.

Semana Santa Iguig, CagayanHoIy Week

Pilgrims flock to the 11 hectare Calvary Hills to meditate on the passion and death of Jesus christ.

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MorionesMarinduqueEaster 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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