The Most Significant Treasures: Tradition and Culture

        Every year, we celebrate different kinds of festivals. Colorful festival banners hanging on the city’s streets, people coming around to experience the festivals, merchants and vendors everywhere and fun and exciting activities and entertainment to be done. Festivals are in fact one of the most significant events of a community, wherein it promotes their culture and tradition. Just like any other festivals from other cities, regions and countries, the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival is a really important event for Ilocos Sur and for the Ilocano people.

One of the most delightful and special festivals that promote the products, culture, tradition, dishes, and talents of each town and cities of Ilocos Sur is the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival.

     This festival is held from the last week of January to the first week of February. This enjoyable and important festival is a celebration of Ilocos Sur’s wonderful treasures: their traditions and cultures as well as the separation of the two Ilocos regions back in 1818. Many people from across Ilocos Sur, including tourists, come to visit the festival located at the Tamag grounds of Vigan City.

        There are many events happening in this festival, like contests for students to join in, which is a great way to develop a student’s mind and for them to learn a lot more about the experience. There are also performances done during the night and a fun carnival with fun rides and games for both kids and adults to enjoy, since fun and joy is a very important part of living, it’s best to have fun ones in a while. There is also a trade and agricultural fair to promote their culture, tradition and products. It’s also a great way for visitors from the city and from other parts of Ilocos Sur or tourists to educate themselves about the traditions and culture of other cities and communities. There are also food stands to promote their dishes, and many merchants and vendors sell merchandise and furniture from where they come from as well as beautiful plants. The festival is also significant for Ilocano people to showcase their abilities and talents in art, there is an art gallery near the entrance and they also hold a pageant. 

    To sum it all, the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival is a very significant event for the Ilokano people since it showcases and promotes the wonderful, unique and special traditions, cultures, dishes, talents and products of Ilocos Sur and celebrates the separation of the two Ilocos regions. The festival is eventful, fun and educational and it helped benefitted the vendors, merchants of the cities and towns they came from in Ilocos Sur. The Kannawidan Ylocos Festival brings the Ilocano people together and helps our province develop.

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