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           Disyembre sa Guimbal Celebration ____________

                   

                     A two week pompous and extravagant celebration of Christmas usually held on the third week of December until New Year. it has gained popular support from all sector in the municipality that made it successful annual celebration. 

     

            Annual Town Fiesta -_____________

                 

                   Celebrated every 10th of September in honor of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, the town's patron saint, and this weeklong celebration reflects the kind of people Guimbalanon's are festive and gay. Various activities are lined up, making celebration colorful.

     

            Holy Week celebration (Bari-Bari) __________

 

               

                A unique observance in the Lenten season, parishioners religiously preserve the tradition of the catholic faith of remembering and observing the passion of Lord Jesus Christ. People put up the 14 kapiyas depicting the 14 station of the cross along the lansangan. After the procession of Holy Thursday and good Friday, people do the bari-bari taking the route of the procession to take a closer look of the kapiyas. Holy week is also a time of reunions, homecoming and other social gatherings for the Guimbalanon's.

 

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