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Next: around 1 to 28 Feb 2027

Panagbenga

Baguio's month-long flower festival, with a street dance and a parade of floats covered in blooms.

Things you see during the Street Dance Parade along Session Road. Feb 28, 2009.
Photo: lolay, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What happens

Panagbenga means a season of blooming in Kankanaey, a language of the Cordillera mountains. Baguio, a cool hill city in the northern Philippines, started the festival in the 1990s to lift spirits after the earthquake of 1990. It runs through February. The two big days come near the end of the month: a street dancing parade in flower costumes, and the next day a grand parade of floats covered in fresh flowers. Session Road is then closed to traffic for a week of stalls.

The flowers

Golden everlastingEverlasting, the papery strawflower sold in garlands in Baguio.Tree marigoldThe wild sunflower that covers Cordillera hillsides.RoseGrown in nearby La Trinidad and used on the floats.ChrysanthemumA main cut flower of the Benguet farms.
About this page

Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Panagbenga Festival" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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