Filipino's likes fiestas.They celebrated all-year round. May is the merriest and the most beautiful month of the year. It's the season of colorful festivals and Flores de Mayo or we called it "Santacruzan" is one such festivals. Stop and smell the fragrance of flowers during the month of May in the Philippines.
Flores de Mayo? Its sounds strange right?..! Well, that's the Catholic festival celebrated by all the Christians all over the Philippines to honor the Virgin Mary. They gather the colorful flowers to decorate the Church altars and aisles. Many towns celebrate Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May) with the people gathered together in the afternoon to pray the rosary, offer flowers to the Virgin Mary and share homemade snacks.
"Santacruzan" is a religious-historical beauty pageant held in many cities and even small villages in the warm month of May and is considered as the "Queen of Filipino Festivals". And guess what?..its not just like that because there's a colorful pageant parade participated by the beautiful Filipina maidens wearing their gowns and their handsome escorts wearing Barong Tagalog under the hand-carried bamboo arc's decorated by beatiful native flowers.
It's really nice and enjoyable, you can feel the happiness of all the people participated in that event through their smiles.
This are some of the photos....
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