The fiesta is part and bundle of Filipino culture. Through good times and bad times, the fiesta must go on. Each city and barrio has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country. But the major and most elaborate festival of all is Christmas, a season celebrated with all the display and show the fun-loving Filipino can handle.

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Filipinos celebrate fiestas because of religious components (e.g. Feast of the Black Nazarene, Sinulog Festival, Feast of Our Lady Of Candles, Moriones Festival,  Manaoag Pilgrimage, Manaoag Pilgrimage, and Feast of Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia), things (e.g. Lanzones Festival, Maskara Festival, and Flores De Mayo), and animals (e.g. Pulilan Carabao Festival and Bangus Festival).