Higantes Festival

Higantes Festival, also known as the Feast of San Clemente, is celebrated every November 23 in the town of Angono, Rizal. This is a major festival in honor of San Clemente, the patron saint of fishermen. His image is carried by male devotees during a procession accompanied by “pahadores” (devotees dressed in colorful local costumes or fishermen’s clothes, wearing wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles, fish nets, traps, etc.) and “higantes” (paper-mâché giants measuring 10-12 feet in height and 4-5 feet in diameter). This street event ends in a procession to Laguna de Bay until the image is brought back to its sanctuary.

Pakwan Festival

As part of positioning Bani Pangasinan as the “Watermelon Capital of the North” .Bani, the watermelon producer in Pangasinan had been known not only in the entire Northern Luzon, but also in the Philippines for its Pakwan. Grown in soil rich with limestones, the Bani’s watermelon is surely one of a kind.Pakwan Festvital aims to boost the tourism industry and to further address the importance of watermelon as the primary product of the town.The event will start with the unveiling of the Pakwan Fountain located at the center of the municipal plaza followed by the opening of the agricultural fair to showcase the different products of the town.

Pahiyas Festival

The Pahiyas Festival is celebrated every year on May 15 in Lucban, Quezon. It is in honor of St. Isidore the Farmer, the patron saint of harvest. Lucban is marvelously situated at the foot of Mount Banahaw and the Pahiyas festival showcases a street of houses adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a decoration made from rice flour, which afterwards can be grilled or fried for eating. The houses compete to be declared the best decorated. Tourists visit Lucban every year in May to see the decoration of the houses. There is also a procession for the saint that concludes at the town’s beautiful church.

Bangus Festival

he Bangus Festival is one of the major and most exciting festivals in the Philippines worth visiting and coming back for.The yearly euphoria envelops the city of Dagupan with a high level of excitement as the street dancers, in their most striking costumes, depict the harvest of bangus. Learn the various ways of cooking bangus in 101 ways while indulging in its succulent taste. See skilled Dagupeños speedily classify, debone and eat bangus. Discover the most beautiful, longest and heaviest bangus. Witness 10,000 pieces of Dagupan bangus simultaneously being grilled in a scorching kilometer stretch, their mouth-watering aroma wafting through the air.

Sinulog Festival

The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest, most distinguished and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The major festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Niño, or the child Jesus, who used to be the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint, but God). It is fundamentally a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people’s pagan past and their recognition of Christianity.

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