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The first edition of the festival, once known as the Baguio Flower Festival, was formally launched in February 1996. [4] By the end of 1996, archivist and curator Ike Picpican suggested that the festival be renamed Panagbenga, a Kankanaey term that means "a season of blossoming, a time for flowering". Subsequent editions of the festival started ...
The Panagbenga festival queen assumed the title and her duties for the rest of the year—the third time a Baguio lass wore the crown. The Reyna ng Aliwan pageant is considered the training ground of many national pageant winners, who have also gone on to compete—and win—international titles.
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Baguio (UK: / ˈ b æ ɡ i oʊ / BAG-ee-oh, US: / ˈ b ɑː ɡ i oʊ, ˌ b ɑː ɡ i ˈ oʊ / BAH-ghee-oh, - OH, Tagalog:), officially the City of Baguio (Ibaloi: Siudad ne Bagiw; Ilocano: Siudad ti Baguio; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Baguio), is a highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
Several of these are held to honor the local Roman Catholic patron saint, to commemorate local history and culture, to promote the community's products, or to celebrate a bountiful harvest. They can be marked by Holy Masses , processions , parades , theatrical play and reenactments , religious or cultural rituals, trade fairs , exhibits ...
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Koreans participate in local events such as the Panagbenga Festival (Baguio Flower Festival). [40] However, their integration is not entirely without problems: in particular despite estimates that the city had the country's second-largest Korean population following Manila, the municipal records showed only ten Koreans who had permits to ...