Cimarrones Festival

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Cimarrones Festival
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Street dancing competition, part of Cimarrones Festival celebration.
Observed by Pili
TypeReligious / Cultural
DateOctober 23–24

The Cimarrones Festival is an annual festival in the municipality of Pili, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. The municipal government hosts the religious-based town fiesta in the town proper. [1]

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The festival is a celebration of the feast of San Rafael Archangel, the patron saint of Pili. It is celebrated annually every October 23–24 since the parish was founded in 1819. The festival is an annual cultural festival held throughout the month of October in Pili. It is celebrated by the six barangays of Pili Centro District. [2]

Etymology

Cimarron Monument Cimarron Monument, Pili, Camarines Sur, August 2023.jpg
Cimarron Monument

The word "Cimarrones" came from during the promulgation of Christianity in the early 1770s by the Spanish missionaries, when the town houses the “Cimarrones” or the “Remontados” who resisted the foreign rule of the neighboring Hispanic city of Nueva Caceres (which is now Naga City). The early center of settlement in the town was located in "Binanuaanan" (from "banwaan" which means town in the Bikol language) until missionaries transferred it to the present site of the town proper where the St. Raphael Archangel Church is located.

History

In 1998, Mayor Tomas P. Bongalonta, Jr. encouraged all the public schools of Pili to present their different styles of street dancing in connection with the history of cimarrones tribes. The festival features the town's cultural heritage through the conduct of various activities which includes cultural presentation, sports festival and civic parade. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Proclamation No. 828: Declaring Thursday, 24 October 2019, A special (non-working) day in the municipality of Pili, Province of Camarines Sur" (PDF). Office of the President: Official Gazette. October 22, 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. ↑ "Cimarrones Festival of Pili".
  3. ↑ "Cimarrones Festival". Senate of the Philippines: Issuances Library. October 22, 2019.
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