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The Giant Lantern Festival (Kapampangan: Ligligan Parul) is an annual festival held in mid-December in the City of San Fernando in the Philippines. The festival features a competition of giant parol lanterns. Because of the popularity of the festival, the city has been nicknamed the "Christmas Capital of the Philippines".
The team is named after the Giant Lantern Festival which takes place in San Fernando., [7] but the word "giant" was left out in their inaugural season, simply going by the Pampanga Lanterns. Once the 2019–20 season started, the team was renamed into its current form: the Pampanga Giant Lanterns.
In 1957, parols with rotor systems were invented by the lantern-maker Rodolfo David. The parol was used for the year's entry of Barangay Santa Lucia in the Giant Lantern Festival of San Fernando, Pampanga, which they subsequently won from 1957 to 1959. His parol used rotating steel drums with wires on hairpins to program the light and music.
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Throngs welcomed the Lantern Festival in cities across the world’s second most populous country with 1.4 billion people. Beijing hosted a slew of lantern festival events across the city.
The Bren Z. Guiao Sports Complex and Convention Center is a sports complex located in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. Since 2022, it is the home arena of the Pampanga Giant Lanterns that plays in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. [1]
Following the annullment of the sale to Premier Central, San Fernando Mayor Edwin Santiago advocated for the revival of the Paskuhan as a Christmas-themed park and the return of the Giant Lantern Festival to the venue; the city's plan to acquire the property was still being deliberated at the time. [8]