Fiestas in the Philippines are held to celebrate a patron saint (the Philippines is the only majority-Christian country in Southeast Asia) or to mark the passage of the seasons, depending on which part of the country you're in. The sole exception is Christmas, where the whole country breaks out in celebrations that can begin long before December.
The roots of Philippine fiestas go back even further - back to before the Spanish conquistadores arrived in the 1500s. In the old animistic culture, regular ritual offerings were made to placate the gods, and these offerings evolved into the fiestas we know today. A wonderful fiesta season means good luck for the rest of the year.
For individual Filipinos, fiestas can be a way of supplicating the heavens or to make amends for past wrongs. In one place, penitents lash themselves with whips; in another, childless women dance on the streets hoping for the blessing of a child.
Every town and city in the Philippines has a fiesta of its own; whatever time of the year it is, there's sure to be a fiesta going on somewhere!
- SHARIFF KABUNSUAN FESTIVAL
- GIANT LANTERN FESTIVAL
- PINTAFLORES FESTIVAL
- HIGANTES FESTIVAL
- MASSKARA FESTIVAL
- LANSONES FESTIVAL
- IBALONG FESTIVAL
- HERMOSA FESTIVAL
- TUNA FESTIVAL
- PENAFRANCIA FESTIVAL
- BONOK-BONOK FESTIVAL
- KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL
- TINALAK FESTIVAL
- SANDUGO FESTIVAL
- KINABAYO FESTIVAL
- PINYAHAN FESTIVAL
- PINTADO FESTIVAL
- PARADA NG LECHON FESTIVAL
- MUDPACK FESTIVAL
- PAHIYAS FESTIVAL
- KALILANGAN FESTIVAL
- KAAMULAN FESTIVAL
- PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
- SINULOG FESTIVAL
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