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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 fishermens clothes, wearing wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles,
fish nets, traps, etc.) and higantes (paper-mch 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
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
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 Dagupeos 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 Nio, 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 peoples pagan past and their recognition of Christianity.
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