A FLOWERful Festival

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The Panagbenga Festival is held yearly during the month of February. The celebrations are held for over a month and peak periods are the weekends. The Panagbenga Festival showcases the many floral floats and native dances.The fragrant smells that could be presently teasing olfactory senses are probably less from the now-dried flowers from Valentine's Day than air floating all the way from Baguio City. At this time of year, the City of Pines is almost surely in flower fury over Panagbenga festival, the city's biggest festival.




Panagbenga is a term for "a season of blooming." It is also known as the Baguio Flower Festival, a homage to the beautiful flowers the city is famous for as well as a celebration of Baguio's re-establishment. Since February 1995, it has been held to help Baguio forget the 1990 earthquake that distressed much of the city.

Panagbenga festival has spectators enjoying a multiple floral and float parades over two days. The Baguio Flower Festival Association (BFFA) will have a street dancing parade and band exhibition.  The festival starts with an opening parade, which features dance competitions from various schools in Baguio City. Organizers of Panagbenga Festivally usually hold the opening parade on the first day of February. The parade normally takes place at Melvin Jones Ground and Session Road. 

Panagbenga 2012 Calendar of Activities:

February 1-March 4  - Market Encounter at Burnham Park

February 12 8:00 am - Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom at  Melvin Jones

February 12 - Handog ng Panagbenga sa Pamilya Baguio at Burnham Park

February 12  10:00 am - Fluvial Float Parade  at Burnham Lake

February 25 8:00 am  Grand Street Dancing Parade at Panagbenga Park to Athletic Bowl

February 26 Grand Float Parade  at Panagbenga Park to Athletic Bowl

February 27-March 4  Session Road in Bloom  at the Session Road

March 2-3  Pony Boys’ Day  Athletic Bowl

March 3-4 Panagbenga Shootfest 2012 , West Pt. Firing Range, Tuba

March 4  Panagbenga Closing Ceremonies at Athletic Bowl 

March 4 Grand Fireworks Display at Athletic Bowl

March 17-18 10th Panagbenga Open Scrabble Tournament , Golden Pine Hotel

heads-up – Baguio City traffic advisory

The event on the 25th and 26th from 4am to 1pm South Drive Teacher’s Camp gate to the Military Rotonda to the Session Road and Harrison will be closed for the Panagbenga parade , Both grand street and float parade.

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