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New Year's Day
is celebrated with great vigour and plenty of
fireworks. On 9 January, the Black Nazarene Procession,
the largest procession in the country, carries
a life-size, blackwood statue of Jesus through
the streets of Quiapo. The Filipino version of
Mardi Gras is the three-day Ati-Atihan, celebrated
in Kalibo on Panay in the third week in January.
On Good Friday, there are many scourges throughout
the country, which have become popular attractions,
especially those at San Fernando and Antipolo,
near Manila. There are more processions on Flores
de Mayo in May, this time in honour of the Virgin
Mary. Independence Day is celebrated on 12 June
with military parades. There are local festivals
taking place just about every week of the year
somewhere in the Philippines.
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