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The feast or the fiesta is part and bundle of Filipino culture. Through good times and bad times, the fiesta must go on. Each city and barrio has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country.

There are different feasts in every month. From January to December each city celebrates their own feast. For the month of January Sinulog Festival in Cebu, the Ati-atihan Festival in Kalibo, Aklan and the Dinagyang Festival is held. For the month of February, Panagbenga Festival in Baguio and Philippine Hot-Air Balloon Festival was held in Ermita, Manila. The month of March in Boac, Marinduque, the Moriones Festival is celebrated. Every month of April in Lamitan, Basilan, the Lami-lamihan Festival was held. Pulilan Carabao Festival, Pahiyas and Obando Fertility Rites is celebrated in Bulacan also for the month of May. Who can forget the Parada ng Lechon in Batangas and Pintados Festival in Tacloban Leyte for the month of June. Every 1st Sunday of July in Bucaue, Bulacan, Bocaue River Festival was held. Every 3rd week of August in Davao City, Kadayawan Festival was held. The month of September is the Feast of Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia in Naga, Camarines Sur, Bicol Region was celebrated. For the Month of October,
Masskara Festival in Bacolod City is celebrated. Higantes Festival in Angono, Rizal for the month of November. And the San Fernando Giant Lantern Festival was held in San Fernando Pampanga also held in Ermita, Manila in December.

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CEBU

BAGUIO

KALIBO AKLAN

ILOILO

PULILAN BULACAN

PAMPANGA

MARINDUQUE

BASILAN

BULACAN

BATANGAS

TACLOBAN

DAVAO

NAGA

BACOLOD

ANGONO, RIZAL