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Every year, hundreds of fiestas are celebrated in the Philippines
and it's well worth timing your journey to see one of the major ones.
It's at these festivals that you get a chance to see legendary Filipino
hospitality at its best. The beer flows, pigs are roasted and there's
dancing in the streets for days on end. More solemn fiestas, usually
religious in nature, are a mixture of devotion, drama, passion and
reaffirmation of faith. The crucifixions held every Good Friday in
Pampanga draw tourists who come to see penitents being flogged then
nailed to a cross. Other major festivals include the Ati-Atihan every
third week of January in Kalibo, the Flores de Mayo held throughout May
in honour of the Virgin Mary, and the Lanzones festival every October in
Camiguin celebrating the island's favourite fruit.
Major festivals
Feast of the Black Nazarene , January 9, Quiapo, Manila.
Sinulog , third Sunday of January, Cebu City.
Ati-Atihan , third week of January, Kalibo, Aklan province.
Moriones , Easter weekend, Marinduque.
Pahiyas , May 15, Lucban, Quezon.
Flores de Mayo , throughout May, countrywide.
Carabao Carroza (water buffalo races), May 3 and 4, Iloilo City, Panay
Island.
Carabao Festival , May 14 and 15, Pulilian, Bulacan Province and Angono
(Rizal Province).
Kadayawan sa Davao , third week of August, Davao City.
Peņafrancia Fluvial Festival , third Saturday of September, Naga City,
Camarines Sur.
Lanzones festival , third week of October, Lambajao, Camiguin.
Masskara , second week of October for one week, Bacolod, Negros
Occidental.
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