The Pagoda sa Wawa Festival is celebrated every 1st of July in the town of Bocaue, Bulacan in honor of the Holy Cross of Wawa. It features fluvial parade of decorated barge and small boats, trade fairs, beauty pageant, and art exhibits. This festival is also known as Bocaue Pagoda Festival.
Apribada Festival - Bonsol, Sorsogon, Philippines
The Apribada Festival is celebrated on the 4th week of January in the Town of Bonsol, Sorsogon in celebration for the prosperity of the Whale shark and the blessing it brings to the town. It features art exhibits, trade fairs, and many others.
Kinabayo Festival - Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines
The Kinabayo Festival is celebrated every 25th of July in the City of Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte in honor of the City’s patron St. James. It features the re-enacting of the Spanish-Moorish Wars, mainly the battle of Covadonga. It also features beauty pageants, street dancing, drum, lyres, and bugle competitions, and horse racing event.
Peñafrancia Viva La Virgen - Naga City, Bicol, Philippines
The Peñafrancia Viva La Virgen Festival is a nine day celebration starting on 3rd Saturday of September in the City of Naga, Bicol in honor of The Lady of Peñafrancia. Locals go back to their roots to meet their relatives and friends to share foods, drinks, and prayers with them. The climax of these festivities is a fluvial parade making its way down the river surrounded by a sea of glowing candles.
Bonok-bonok Festival - Surigao City, Philippines
The Bonok-bonok Festival is a day long celebration held every the 10th of September in the City of Surigao in honor of the city’s patron saint, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. The townspeople go back to their roots as they celebrate their heritage with a loud street dancing parade. It also features the native folk’s merry-making to show gratitude to pagan gods for bountiful harvest and good health.
Sandugo Festival - Tagbiliran City, Bohol, Philippines
The Sandugo Festival is a month long celebration every July in the City of Tagbiliran, Bohol to commemorate the Treaty of Friendship between Datu Sikatuna and the Spanish Conquistador Miguel Lopez De Legazpi which occurred on March 16, 1565 through a blood compact. It features street dancing competition, traditional Filipino carnival, and martial arts festival.
Bankero Festival - Pagsanjan, Laguna, Philippines
The Bankero Festival is a week long celebration held every last week of may in Pagsanjan, Laguna as a tribute to the excellent bankeros (boatmen) who shoots the famous Pagsanjan Rapids. It features fluvial parades and exhibitions, street dancing, cultural night, and trade fairs.
Binirayan Festival - Antique Province, Philippines
The Binirayan Festival is a week long festivities celebrated every the 3rd week of April in the Province of Antique in commemoration of the legend of the arrival of the ten Bornean Datus on the island of Panay. It features beauty pageants, cultural shows, street dancing, and arts and crafts exhibit.
Pinyahan Festival - Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines
The Pinyahan Festival (Pineapple Festival) is celebrated every the 15th up to the 24th of June in the town of Daet, Camarines Norte in honor of their main crop (Pineapple). It features colorful street presentation, trade fairs, cultural dances, and Art exhibits.
Manggahan Festival - Guimaras, Phillipines
The Manggahan Festival (Mango Festival) is celebrated every the 16th to the 20th of April in the Island of Guimaras in celebration of the founding of the province and for the sustained production of its famous mangoes. It features the exhibit of the townspeople handmade and indigenous products.
Parada ng Lechon - Balayan, Batangas, Philippines
The Parada ng Lechon Festival is held every the 24th of June in the town of Balayan, Batangas in honor of Saint John the Baptist. It features the parade of Lechon(roasted pig) decorated in their platforms with all kinds of decorations. It also features water dousing as town people observe the feast by repeating the ritual of baptism.
Pintados Festival - Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines
The Pintados Festival is held every the 29th of June annually in the City of Tacloban in honor of the Baby Jesus. It is a cultural and religious celebration based on the body painting traditions of the ancient tattooed warriors. It features town residents decorating themselves with body paint, imitating the warriors of old to the beat of the drums.
Kadayawan Festival - Davao City, Philippines
The Kadawayan Festival is held from the 20th to 24th of August in the City of Davao as a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest, and serenity of living. It features the parade of orchid-bedecked floats and group participants dressed in ethnic costumes dancing to the beat of wooden drums.
Hermosa Festival - Zamboanga City, Philippines
The Hermosa Festival is held from the 1st of October up to the 12th of October in the City of Zamboanga in honor of the miraculous image of Our lady of the Pilar, the patroness of the City. It features many different activities such as street dance competition participated by the different schools in the city and a race till you drop regatta. It also showcases a wealth of cultural and floral shows, art exhibits, and trade fairs.
Panagbenga Festival - Baguio City, Philippines
The Panagbenga Festival is month-long annual flower festival held in the City of Baguio as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon Earthquake. It showcases the many floral floats and native dances. It also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes.
Pahiyas Festival - Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
The Pahiyas Festival is an annual festival held on 15th of May in the town of Lucban,Quezon in honor of Isidore the laborer, the patron saint of farmers, as a thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. The celebration started on the 16th century. It showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and rice-made decoration.
Moriones Festival - Marinduque, Philippines
The Moriones Festival is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque. It is widely known as one of the most colorful festivals in the Philippines. Moriones refers to the masked and costumed penitents who march around the town for seven days searching for Longinus. It is a religious festival that re-enacts the story of Saint Longinus. The festival is characterized by colorful Roman costumes, painted masks and helmets, and brightly-colored tunics.
Higantes Festival - Agano, Rizal, Philippines
The Higantes Festival is a two day festival held annually on the 22nd and 23rd of November in town of Agano, Rizal in honor of Saint Clement, the town’s patron saint. It features the parade of people dressed in Higantes(The higantes are made of paper-mache. Higantes measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height). This higantes was influenced by the Mexican art form of paper-mache brought by the Spanish priests to the Philippines.
Sinulog Festival - Cebu City, Philippines
The Sinulog Festival is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in the City of Cebu in honor of the Baby Jesus, who used to be their patron saint. It is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people's Islamic and pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. It features a street parade of participants in bright colored costumes dancing in the rhythm of drums, gongs, and trumpets.
Masskara Festival - Bacolod City, Philippines
The Masskara Festival is week long festival held annually in the City of Bacolod, Negros Occidental every third week of October nearest October 19. It is known for its street dance competition where people troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.
Dinagyang Festival - Iloilo City, Philippines
The Dinagyang Festival is a three day festival which begins on the fourth Friday of January and ends on the fourth Sunday of January in honor of the Baby Jesus and to celebrate the arrival on Panay Island of the Malay settlers. It is held in the City of Iloilo. It is one of the most popular festivals in the Philippines. It attracts tourist because of its street party and the performance of various tribes dressed in indigenous costumes accompanied by music.
Ati-Atihan Festival - Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines
The Ati-Atihan Festival is a three day festival which begins on the third Friday of January and ends on the third Sunday of January in honor of the Baby Jesus. It is held in the town of Kalibo, Aklan. It consists of tribal dancing, music, and accompanied by indigenous costumes. Many tourists (both local and foreign) come to watch and have fun during the festival.
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