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The Pintados Festival is a cultural-religious celebration in Tacloban, Philippines, based on the body-painting traditions of the ancient tattooed "pintados" warriors. [1] In 1986, the Pintados Foundation, Inc. was formed by the people of Tacloban to organize this festival in honor of Señor Santo Niño . [ 2 ]
Pahiyas Festival (Lucban, Quezon) - A century-old cultural festival held every May 15. The highlight of the festival is a parade of colorful decorated carabao carts. San Isidro Labrador Festival (Angono, Rizal) - A religious festival held on May 15 honoring the town's patron saint, St. Isidore the Laborer. The highlight of the festival is a ...
Pahiyas is held every May 15 to honor St. Isidore the Laborer, the patron saint of farmers and good harvest. A 6:00 AM Mass at the church marks the start of the colorful Pahiyas Festival every May 15; at 7:00 AM, a procession leaves the church carrying the images of San Isidro Labrador and Beata María de la Cabeza on a route around the town.
Also highlights the coconut, the primary crop of the city. Festival usually lasts a week. Minasa Festival [10] 2nd week Bustos, Bulacan: named after the Minasa, a cassava-based cookie Batingaw Festival [11] 13 Cabuyao: commemorates the legendary golden bell of Cabuyao Halad Festival [12] 3rd Sunday Midsayap, Cotabato: Honours the Santo Niño
Tagalog maginoo (nobility) wearing baro in the Boxer Codex (c.1590). Baro't saya evolved from two pieces of clothing worn by both men and women in the pre-colonial period of the Philippines: the baro (also barú or bayú in other Philippine languages), a simple collar-less shirt or jacket with close-fitting long sleeves; [5] and the tapis (also called patadyong in the Visayas and Sulu ...
Spanish was an official language of the country until immediately after the People Power Revolution in February 1986 and the subsequent ratification of the 1987 Constitution. The new charter dropped Spanish as an official language and today it is very rare to find a native Spanish speaker, less than 0.1% of the population.
The Spanish city of Valencia's five day festival known as Las Fallas ended at midnight on Sunday, March 19th with a ceremony in which nearly 380 papier mache sculptures were set alight.
Junkanoo costumes can be considered folk costume but fall more into the sector of carnival dress than traditional garment. Cuba – Guayabera, panama hat (male), guarachera [43] (female) Dominican Republic – Chacabana, panama hat; Dominica – Madras; Haiti – Karabela dress (female), Shirt jacket (male)