PAMULINAWEN FESTIVAL
February 2-11
Laoag City, Ilocos Norte

A celebration of the city's founding day highlighted by a dance parade around the city proper, held every first week of February. Fiesta celebration has become an integral part of the religious and cultural heritage of every town in the Philippines.

From February 02-11, join Laoag City as they celebrate the Pamulinawen Festival. Originally perceived by the early Spanish friars and conquistadors to attract natives to their religious fold, fiestas indeed became a successful way of converting them to the Catholic religion, thus it became a yearly festivity handed down to us the passage of time.

The celebration is held on the feast day of the town's patron saint. Just like any other town in the country, Laoag City celebrates its annual fiesta on the 11th of February, the feast day of Saint William the Hermit, its patron saint. It is an affair, which is primarily done to give honor, pay our homage and extend our thanks for the benevolence and generosity of Saint William. Through his intercession to the Lord, Laoag City has been blessed and spared from calamities and disasters. The Laoagueños wait for and look forward to every celebration of the city fiesta, making it an extension of the fun and the frolics of the Christmas season.