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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117
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SUMMARY:Ati-Atihan Festival
URL:https://pinasdex.com/visayas/western-visayas/aklan/visit/events/634-ati
 -atihan-festival/
LOCATION:Aklan
DESCRIPTION:The province's best known festival: tribal dance\, music and a 
 street parade in Kalibo on the third Sunday of January\, held in honour of
  the Santo Nino. The name means to be like Atis\, after the Aeta people wh
 o first settled Panay. Dancers wear indigenous costumes and carry indigeno
 us weapons\, and Christians and non-Christians both join the religious pro
 cessions.\n\nIt began as a celebration of the treaty between the Ati\, who
  live in the mountains\, and the Malay people of the flatlands. When the S
 panish converted the Malays\, they asked them to hold the celebration on t
 he feast of the Santo Nino. The festival started in Batan and later spread
  to neighbouring towns\, and it has inspired other Philippine festivals.
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