Region in Visayas · 4 provinces and cities
A street festival of masked dancers, held every year on the fourth Sunday of October. The masks give the festival its name: Pista sang Maskara in Hiligaynon. The smiling faces on them are why Bacolod is called the City of Smiles. The city started the festival in 1980, …
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Dumaguete's own festival. Sandurot means welcome, and the re-enactment on the boulevard tells how the city took in the peoples who landed here.
A street dancing festival held every 3 to 5 November, and one of the most popular in the region. The dancers paint flowers on their faces, arms, bodies and legs, in the pintados tradition, to show gratitude to people and to their surroundings. The name joins two Spanish …
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A week of parades and town booths, held in Dumaguete every October. Each town and city in Negros Oriental keeps a booth with its own products and its own sights, and the province calls the week its festival of festivals. A float parade and a street dancing competition …
One of the three major festivals of the city, held on the third Sunday of January, the same day as the Sinulog in Cebu City. The other two are the Udyakan sa Kabankalan and the charter anniversary.
The festival of festivals: every town and city of Negros Oriental brings its own festival to Dumaguete for ten days, with booths, street dancing and a food fair.
