Today Lingayen celebrates thier town fiesta, Lingayen Town Fiesta celebrates starts at January 1 to 5. There are lots of contest going on in Lingayen Town Fiesta, Barangay Nights, SK Nights, Balikbayan Nights, Professional Nights and most of all the Beauty Contest which is Search for Miss Lingayen.
Every Town and Cities in the Philippines has their own Fiesta even barangay. Different Day, Month and Fiest to celebrate.
Lingayen is located at northern luzon also Lingayen is the Capitol of Pangasinan, a beautiful town of Pangasinan and also near in Hundred Islands. If you want to visit Lingayen you must visit their Capitol and Town Proper. Lingayen is also known in their product of Bagoong it means Fish Souce, there are different of Fish souce.
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The Ati-Atihan is a festival in honour of the St. Niño, celebrated in the third week of January. During the last three days of this week-long festival (fiesta), a parade is characteristic. A colourful happening with celebrants who paint their faces in many different ways and who are dressed in the most exceptional costumes. The dancing on the rhythms of the drums makes this festival comparable with carnivals in Rio in Brazil! The Fiesta is celebrated in Kalibo on the island of Panay (Visayas) Philippines.
The Origin of Ati-Atihan:
In the thirteeenth century, long before the Spaniards came to the Philippines, light-skinned immigrants from the island of Borneo (Kalimantan) in Indonesia arrived on Panay. The local people of Panay, the Ati (negritos), a small and dark (black) kinky-haired people, sold them a small piece of l
and and allowed them to settle down in the lowlands. The Atis themselves, lived more upland in the mountains.
One time the Ati people was in need of food because of a bad harvest in their homelands. They cam down to the lowland inhabitants to ask for some food. They danced and sang in gratitude for the helping hand. A real friendship was born and the Maraynon started to paint their faces black in honor of the Atis and took part in the fiesta.