Filipinos welcome the season uniquely with different flavors and traditions that make Christmas extra special. The Filipino's strong sense of family and preserving ties make Christmas the perfect time to share love and blessings with each other. Christmas is celebrated during the "ber" months, as it's called in the Philippines — that is, September, October, November and December. Christmas is the longest celebrated season in the Philippines, and our country celebrates it the longest globally. Can you imagine a whole nation willingly sharing warmth and love ... this long?
Christmas in the Philippines is all about families. Christmas is one of the most loved celebration by Filipinos. Families, relatives gather on the 24th of December, to celebrate food prepared for “Noche Buena,” a Spanish term which means “midnight meal” to greet Christmas Day. Filipinos are indeed the world's most Christmas-oriented people. We start recognizing the Christmas season as early as September with radio stations playing Christmas songs. Our town celebrates Christmas filled with joyous and welcoming events for Bigueños. In every city or town in the Philippines, each has its own way to celebrate the season. In the World Heritage City of Vigan, us Bigueños gather as crowd to participate in the unveiling of the Christmas tree, it’s a yearly tradition. But now, because of the pandemic, some activities were cancelled. As Bigueños starting to feel the festive vibes, we like walking around our different sceneries in our city and be mesmerized by the Christmas Decors lighting the streets with our hairs flowing in the wind. However, even those things, we still needed to follow the health protocols of course, it’s a must. Regardless of all the odds caused by the pandemic, the Heritage City continuous as the annual Artes Ita Paskua of the City Government of Vigan that got its way last December 07-17, 2020, with the new normal set-up, in which most of the events were done through online and the others were with limited participants to comply into the Minimum Health Standards set by the City Covid-19 Task Force.
http://vigancity.gov.ph/its-christmas-season-in-vigan-city/
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