Vigan City Solidarity Celebration

Celebrating Our Solidarity

Another day to celebrate and honor the Heritage City of Vigan. The only heritage city in the Philippines. Vigan City is a sight to see where tourists are welcomed and the locals' hospitality to whole new great level. Wonder why Vigan is a sight to see? Just wait and you will see.

Vigan City celebrates its Solidarity, where everyone is welcomed to tour the said city.

Vigan City, as the only heritage city in the Philippines, once again celebrates the World Heritage Cities Solidarity Cultural Festival for the whole month of September.

The festival is rooted in Vigan City being part of the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), an organization founded on September 8, 1993 in Fez, Morocco, to unite cities included in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. The organization aims to bolster support to preserve and promote the member cities’ respective World Heritage.

Vigan City was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 for having the “best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia”. Established in the 16th century, Vigan City boasts of intact examples of colonial architecture that reflect the coming together of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China and from Europe, resulting in a culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-East Asia.

There are events of the festival from September 3 to 7 include singing competitions, photography, zarzuela Ilocana (Ilocano stage play), dallot (a part of the Ilocano oral tradition of debate through  singing), kinnantaran (a form of debate between a man and a woman through singing), cultural quiz, sabayang pagbigas (speech choir), daniw (poetry), storytelling, writing on the history of Vigan as told by senior residents, painting, and folk dancing.

There are so many ways to celebrate and honor the City of Vigan. And one of them is celebrating its solidarity towards better cause.

Source: https://pia.gov.ph/features/articles/1026839                 https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/City/vigancityph/posts/