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.
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