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The Lechon Festival (English: Parade of Roast Pigs; Filipino: Parada ng Lechon) is a religious and cultural festival in Balayan, Batangas, Philippines held every June 24. [1] [2] The festival is celebrated in honor of St. John the Baptist. Numerous activities are performed such as lechon parade, and water dousing. [3]
Balayan, officially the Municipality of Balayan (Tagalog: Bayan ng Balayan), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 95,913 people. [5] The town is rich among the natural resources of sugarcanes, coconuts and corn.
The origin of most early festivals, locally known as "fiestas", are rooted in Christianity, dating back to the Spanish colonial period when the many communities (such as barrios and towns) of the predominantly Catholic Philippines almost always had a patron saint assigned to each of them.
It is often cooked during special occasions. A simpler version has chopped pieces of pork fried in a pan or wok (lechon kawali). A variant that is popular in the Visayas region is lechon de leche, which is a whole roasted suckling pig. Also refers to the manner of cooking, i.e., spitted and charcoal-roasted, for example, lechon manok (roasted ...
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