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Dinagyang Festival is one of the biggest and world-class festivals in the Philippines. It traces the history of devotion to the Holy Child Jesus popularly known to Filipino devotees as Sr. Sto. Nino. The festival also commemorates the arrival of the Malay settlers and the legendary barter of Panay Island from the natives called called Ati.
Dinagyang season in Iloilo City is on the first month of the year and highlighted with an Ati Tribe Competition every fourth Sunday of January. There is an official launching by mid-October of the previous year signaling the start of preparations especially for tribes to practice for their performances in January of the next year.
The participants show impressive choreography with colorful tribal costumes and striking props to present socio-cultural and religious tableaus depicting life in Panay before the Spanish colonization and the advent of Catholicism in the country.
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Iloilo City, officially known as the City of Iloilo (Hiligaynon: Siyudad/Dakbanwa sang Iloilo; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Iloilo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines on the island of Panay. It is the capital city of the province of Iloilo, where it is geographically situated and grouped under the Philippine Statistics Authority, but remains politically independent in terms of government and administration. In addition, it is the center of the Iloilo–Guimaras Metropolitan Area, as well as the regional center and primate city of the Western Visayas region. According to the 2020 census, Iloilo City has a population of 457,626 inhabitants, with a 0 42% population annual growth rate. For the metropolitan area, the total population is 1,008,445 inhabitants.
Camiña Balay nga Bato is a heritage house and a restaurant in Iloilo City that was constructed in 1865. Filled with Spanish-era remnants, it’s a great place to look back and experience the glory days of the postromantic period
GUIMARAS
The Molo Mansion, also known as the Yusay-Consing Mansion, is one of the most outstanding example of historical homes not just in Iloilo, but the entire country This grand structure, which faces the town plaza and St. Anne Parish Church, was rescued and restored by a private developer after years of ruin. Now it's a heritage museum with a cultural retail shop that showcases products and local delicacies.
One of the most prominent structures in the plaza are the life-size statues of Roman Goddesses and infamous women warriors. Beside the plaza is the majestic Molo Church built in 1863.
The Spanish word camiña means walk while the Hiligaynon word balay nga bato means stone house If you put them together, perhaps what they’re saying is “walk into the stone house.
Guimaras locally [ɡimaˈ ɾas], is an island province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is Jordan. The province is situated in the Panay Gulf, between the islands of Panay and Negros. To the northwest is the province of Iloilo and to the southeast is Negros Occidental. The whole island is part of the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras, one of the twelve metropolitan areas of the Philippines
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The province consists primarily of Guimaras Island, and also includes Inampulugan, Guiwanon, Panobolon, Natunga, Nadulao, and many surrounding islets.
Garin Farm
Garin Farm is an agricultural, recreational, and spiritual site in one It is an inland resort that is foremost a functional farm with several agricultural features but also has leisure activities and a pilgrimage site that can all be enjoyed by visiting guests.
Guimaras, formerly known as Himal-us, was a subprovince of Iloilo until it was made an independent province on May 22, 1992.
Plaza Libertad is a historic plaza located in the heart of Iloilo City Proper, the downtown district, at the southeastern end of Calle Real It is where the flag of the first Philippine Republic was raised in triumph after Spain surrendered Iloilo, her last capital in the Philippines, to the revolutionary forces led by Gen. Martin Delgado .
Camiña Balay nga Bato
Molo Mansion
Plaza Libertad
Molo Plaza
Molo Plaza
