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The partial calendar list contains several of the oldest and larger religious and/or cultural festivals in the country. Each town, city, and village has a dedicated fiesta, resulting in thousands held throughout the year; a few are national in character. Some fiestas may contain multiple/conflicting dates and/or place entries.
Aliwan Fiesta - held annually in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, it is a celebration of Filipino culture through dance parades, floats, and pageants. Aliwan Fiesta is organized by the Manila Broadcasting Company together with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the city governments of Pasay and Manila. It is one of the ...
Buling-Buling Festival is a religious and cultural event celebrated annually in Pandacan, Manila in the Philippines on the third Saturday of January, in time with the town's fiesta, to honor its patron, Santo Niño — a wooden image of child Jesus Christ. It is a festival of street dancing where its people, Pandaqueños who are well-dressed in ...
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A working holiday which was first observed in 2016. Celebrates the internationally recognized former mayor of Naga City Jesse Robredo who died while serving as Aquino's local government secretary on August 18, 2012. August 25 National Tech-Voc Day: Pambansang Araw ng Edukasyong Teknolohikal-Bokasyonal: Fixed
The Manila Carnival was first held in February 1908. The carnival's original organizer was an American colonel named George T. Langhorne who asked the Philippine Assembly for 50,000 pesos to build a cockpit, exhibit "half-naked" Igorot tribesmen and set up curiosities.
The MassKara Festival (Hiligaynon: Pista sang MassKara, Filipino: Pista ng MassKara) is an annual festival with highlights held every 4th Sunday of October [1] [2] in Bacolod, Philippines. The festival sites include the Bacolod Public Plaza, the Lacson Tourism Strip and the Bacolod City Government Center.
The public plaza was then barricaded, patrolled by building security and access denied to the parade crowd. New York City officials, in rejecting the complaints filed by witnesses, offered no explanation why the largely Filipino crowd could not sit or stand in the public plaza which is designated to be open 24 hours for public use. [12]