Luzon Festivals

Luzon

is the Philippines
largest island and is
composed of a lot of
provinces, regions,
cities,towns,cultures.
Assuch, it ishome tothe
countrys
best festivals.

MostofLuzon may be reached via

landtravel, unlike theVisayas, which
is comprised ofseveralislands
andislets.If you live in Luzon,make
it a point tosee these six festivals in
your lifetime. You can even do it in a
year, asit seems that the best of
Luzon festivals are spread out
throughout the year and a major one
is held almost every month

Panagbenga FestivaL
Of BAGUIO

Panagbenga Festival
Whole Month of February

The festival in Baguio was created as a tribute

to the citys flowers and as a way to rise up from
the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
The festival includes floats that are decorated
with flowers unlike those used in Pasadenas
Rose Parade.
The festival also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired
costumes, tis is inspired by the Cordilleranbased celebration of Ibaloi dance called the

Bendian

Flores de Mayo & Santacruzan

Flores de Mayo & Santacruzan

1st May 31st May

Flores de Mayo is a Catholic festival held

in the Philippines in the month of May.
Santacruzan is the queen of Maytime
festivals. It is a novena procession, in
commemoration of Saint Helenas finding
of the cross. Saint Helena was the mother
of Constantine the Great.

Pahiyas Festival

Pahiyas Festival
15th May

It is started in the 6th century

Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas
Festival in honor of the patron saint
of farmers, St. Isidore.
The Pahiyas is not Pahiyas without
the kipping, the colorful leaf hung in
every along the route of the
procession.

This festival showcases a street of houses

which are adorned with fruits,
vegetables, agricultural products,
handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made
decoration, which afterwards can be
eaten grilled or fried. The houses are
judged and the best one is proclaimed
the winner.

Pistay Dayat

Pistay Dayat
Pistay

Dayat is definitely
Pangasinans Mother of all
Festivals. It is unquestionably
the provinces grandest and
biggest festival celebrated
every 1st of May as a tribute
to the sea and its bounties.

Pistay Dayat

Through the years, it continued

to become the major summer
attraction, luring thousands of
visitors from different parts of
the country and the world with
fun-filled activities incorporated
in a weeklong spectacle of fun
and excitement.

Pistay Dayat Grand Fluvial

Parade

Bangus Festival

Bangus Festival
of Dagupan, Pangasinan

Celebrated on April just before

the onset of the Pistay Dayat,
Dagupan City has done justice
to its most popular product,
which is globally renowned, in
a festive mood of glorifying
the best tasting milkfish in the
country and in the world.

 This

festival is a 19-day, yearly

event the highlights the local
bangus industry. The festival
features the Bonuan bangus
(milkfish)and is said to having
its tatste incomparable to the
other variety of milk fish.

Fun Activities
Bangus Rodeo, competiton for fastest
bangus deboner,
Fastest bangus classifier
Gilon Gilon ed Baley Street Dancing
Competition
The Dagupan Bangus Queen Search

Lanzones Festival

Lanzones Festival
25th October

Each year there is a Lanzones Festival

held in October. The week-long festival is
one of the more colorful events in the
Philippines.
The Lanzones festival celebrated its 30th
Anniversary last October 2009.

Binabayani Festival
of Olongapo

Binabayani Festival

Binabayani Festival is celebrated during

last week of November where it re enact
the battle between Christian and Aetas
through a dance interpretation.
The dance is complemented with aetas
costume; peoples bodies all rubbed with
charcoal and are naked waist up with a
short pants and birds nest- made hats all
in color black

Binabayani Festival

Christian accessories include white

pants and polo shirts with colored
band up from the shoulder down to
the waist.
Props ( bolos and Bamboo)

AGOO DINENGDENG
FESTIVAL

AGOO DINENGDENG
FESTIVAL
A

festival of harvest and

thanksgiving for the bounty
and blessings that the Almighty
Creator has bestowed to the
town and the Agoeos. It is
celebrated annually every first
week of May

AGOO DINENGDENG
FESTIVAL

This occasion pays tribute to

Dinengdeng, a favorite vegetable dish of
Ilocanos equally famous as the pakbet or
pinakbet. It aims to promote this
simple yet healthy dish made up of
backyard vegetables like the squash,
eggplant, ampalaya, saluyot and okra,
mixed with bagoong (fish sauce) and
simmered with a dried or broiled fish.

AGOO DINENGDENG
FESTIVAL
It

features 101 ways to cook

Dinengdeng from the variant of
freshly picked vegetable
prepared on-the-spot by the
towns socio, academic, religious
and civic organizations. The
dishes are open for free tasting
to the public.