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Monday, June 1, 2015

Calendar of Festivals in the Philippines

January

Friday, March 27, 2015

Marinduque | The Folk-Religious Moriones Festival

The Moriones festival is a weeklong senakulo in which the streets are overrun by masked locals engaging in mock sword fights and playing pranks on bystanders. Most of the towns in Marinduque participated on this occasion.

It started in 1807 when a parish priest of Mogpog named Padre Dionsio Santiago organized a play based on the story of Longinus. Longinus is a Roman centurion who assigned to execute Christ. His right eye was blind and miraculously restored by a drop of Christ blood. Longinus proclaimed his faith and he was chased around the town, captured and summarily beheaded.

Each municipality of Marinduque holds its own festival. Hundreds of Marinduqueno wear centurion masks and costumes and armed themselves with wooden swords, spears and shields.

The mask takes months to prepare and are kept secret from even close friends and family so that the Moriones true identity is never known.

How to get there:

Take bus bound for Lucena Quezon, one that with signboard "Dalahican Pier".

From the Dalahican Pier board a RORO ferry for Balanacan Pier in Marinduque.

Most jeepneys outside the ferry terminal are available that ply to the different towns of Marinduque

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Benguet | Panabenga Festival of Baguio City

Tourist flocked to the city of Baguio in Cordillera on the month of February to witness the week long colorful celebration of Panabenga Festival. This festival showcases the colorful flowers of the city. Most flowers that sold in Manila were mostly coming form the Cordillera.

Strawberry is also one of the main products of the region.

The streets of Baguio come alive with song, dance and a spectacular grand floral parade of floats.

How to get there:
Several bus companies along EDSA have trips to Baguio

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Quezon | Lucban's Pahiyas Festival

This festival showcases the bountiful harvest of the people of Lucban Quezon. The festivity held every 15th of May is in honor of the town patron saint San Isidro Labrador. The houses were decorated with colorful kiping, different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Kiping is leaf-shaped rice wafers.

Located also in Lucban is the "Kamay ni Hesus" shrine which is a healing church that has been founded in the year 1998 by Rev. Fr. Joseph Ayala Faller. This is a popular pilgrimage destination in Southern Luzon.

Pancit hab-hab and longanisa is also a must try when visiting Lucban. The quit town of Lucban is located in the foothill of mystical mount Banahaw.

The Saint Louis of Toulouse Parish Church (Lucban Church) follows the baroque design. It has a three-story facade. The second level features semi-circular windows flanked by Corinthian columns and niches containing statues of saints and also has an octagonal, three-story bell tower standing on a square base.

How to get there:

Take bus bound for Sta. Cruz Laguna. From there hop a mini-bus/jeepney to Lucban. Alternatively, take bus bound for Lucena Quezon. Regular jeepneys connect Grand Central to Lucban.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Rizal | Higantes Festival Of Angono

Higantes Festival highlights the annual celebration of the people of Angono. This festival features a larger than life paper-mache. It is also pays tribute in honor of San Clemente, the patron saint of the fishermen. Those higantes depicts image of famous personalities and some local farmers and fishermen.

The streets of were filled with locals and tourists waiting for the grand parade of the higantes, majorettes, bands and floats. The higantes were wearing a colorful costumes and dance gracefully in sync with the drum beats of the musicians that following them. After the parade there is a cultural presentation by different schools.

Angono is also the hometown of the two great national artists Carlos “Botong” Francisco and professor Lucio San Pedro. Francisco is a famous painter while San Pedro is music genius. Along the Dona Aurora street in Baranggay Poblacion Itaas displays an array of mural/sculptured walls depicting the famous paintings of Francisco. Most of the murals are pictures of rural life. The walls show the creativity and love for the arts of the townspeople.

The town of Angono is dubbed as the art capital of the Philippines.

how to get there

From MRT Shaw Boulevard / EDSA Central ride a jeep bound for Angono or Binangonan. Fare is p30.00.

Know more about Angono, Rizal at www.angono.gov.ph