Feistay Dayat Festival
Pista’y Dayat Festival (Sea Festival)
is a thanksgiving festival celebrated annually during the first two weeks of
April. It celebrates the bountiful harvest of abundant fishes. It is now the
grandest festivity in the province of Pangasinan. It features a mass offering
in the beautiful beach of Lingayen and a fluvial grand parade, including the
nine well-known festivities such as Galicayo Festival of Manaoag, Pandan
Festival of Mapandan, Longganisa Festival of Alaminos, Sugpo Festival of
Binmaley, Mango and Bamboo Festival of San Carlos City, Puto Festival of
Calasiao, Binongey Festival of Anda, Sawali Festival of Labrador, and Pista'y
Dayat.
According to Dagupan City's official
website, Pista’y Dayat actually started in small fishing towns of Lingayen and
Alaminos in the 1960s, gradually growing in size as these towns started to
trade with each other. It was during the term of former Dagupan City Mayor
Cipriano Manaois in 1968 when formal activities for Pista'y Dayat were first
held. It was also during this period that the title Pista'y Dayat was
officially coined.
Bangus Festival
Bangus Festival is the first thing that
comes to the mind of every Filipino person upon hearing the place
"Dagupan." Bangus Festival is a famous celebration which happens
annually in the month of April. Bangus, or Milkfish, is the main product of
Dagupan, and it citizens are proud to showcase it to others during the
festival. It is a two-week celebration with different planned activities on
each day. These activities include the bangus food trip, bangus rodeo and many
other exciting activities. "Festivals of the North" is the highlight
of the event, wherein the street dancing champions in the central and northern
Luzon come to show an excellent performance which will amaze the audience.
Talong festival
Villasis Pangasinan celebrated “Talong
Festival” on the month of January. It is a 9-day celebration
featuring various activities related to “talong”.
Among the highlights were the inauguration of the Villasis Vegetable
Trading Post or Bagsakan and the setting up of a one-kilometer-long Talong
Grill to help the town establish its own identity. Almost 1.5Thousands of local
and foreign tourists flocked to Villasis, Pangasinan to
witness the first “Talong” (Eggplant) Festival in this agricultural
town, the “Vegetable Basket” of
the North and “Vegetable home of Pangasinan”.
Other exciting activities such as fashion show competition, street
dancing exhibition are presented where they use talong as their props and
decoration to their costumes. Visitors also enjoyed watching talong cookfest (101
ways of cooking talong).
Like other festivals celebrated in different towns of the province of
Pangasinan, some TV personalities are invited to entertained townspeople and
visitors and experienced a free concerts and street party.
Mango - Bamboo Festival
A festival promoting San Carlos City as major trading center of bamboo
based products/furniture and best producer of “carabao” mangoes and other mango
variety in the country.
San Carlos City is popular in bamboo
industry, the city has its own bamboo market where produce from bamboo like
nipa huts, baskets, lamp shades, furniture, cabinets, among others are on
display and traded for three days, starting from Thursday to Saturday. Traders
from other provinces come here to buy the produce and sell these to outside
provinces.
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