Each Palm Sunday, residents of Angono, Philippines reenact Jesus's entry into Jerusalem by processing with palm leaves and spreading mats and linens in the street for the procession to pass over. They also perform a senakulo, reenacting Jesus's suffering, death, and resurrection. Known as the Art Capital of the Philippines, Angono is especially famous for its five-day Higantes festival, where large effigies made of bamboo and papier mache parade through town, commemorating a past protest against a stingy landlord.
Each Palm Sunday, residents of Angono, Philippines reenact Jesus's entry into Jerusalem by processing with palm leaves and spreading mats and linens in the street for the procession to pass over. They also perform a senakulo, reenacting Jesus's suffering, death, and resurrection. Known as the Art Capital of the Philippines, Angono is especially famous for its five-day Higantes festival, where large effigies made of bamboo and papier mache parade through town, commemorating a past protest against a stingy landlord.
Each Palm Sunday, residents of Angono, Philippines reenact Jesus's entry into Jerusalem by processing with palm leaves and spreading mats and linens in the street for the procession to pass over. They also perform a senakulo, reenacting Jesus's suffering, death, and resurrection. Known as the Art Capital of the Philippines, Angono is especially famous for its five-day Higantes festival, where large effigies made of bamboo and papier mache parade through town, commemorating a past protest against a stingy landlord.
Every Palm Sunday, parishioners, priests and laymen of
Angono re-enact the entering of Jesus to Jerusalem with
the use of palaspas or palm leaves. Latag banig, it is when men spread mats while women spread linen on the mats on the street where the procession will pass. They also have the senakulo or the re-enactment of Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection. Hailed as Art Capital of the Philippines, Angono has been popularly known as the cradle of the artistic abilities and creative expressions.
HIGANTES. That five-day art festival highlighted Angono as the
country’s art capital. It began with the Higantes Parade at the town center. The parade of colorful effigies made of bamboo, cloth, and papier mache, started as form of protest from the people when Angono was still dominated by a stingy landlord who prohibited merrymaking except during the feast day of the town’s patron saint.