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Sto. Nino Fiesta in Puerto Galera


Sto. Nino Festival Pictures

Colorful parade around town while holding an icon of the Sto. Niño

Puerto Galera celebrates the first festival of the year, the Sinulog Festival. Children were dressed in colorful costumes and dancing on the streets typically while holding an icon of the Sto. Niño and chanting "Viva Pit Señor". Roman Catholic Filipinos mark the 3rd weekend of January as the feast day of Sto. Niño, conducting religious rites, colorful parades and street dancing as a sign of strong devotion and faith. The Sinulog Festival is widely celebrated but the center of all the celebration is in Cebu City. There, the biggest festival of Cebu is also sometimes the biggest in the country.

Festival King and Queen

he King and Queen of this year's fiesta

In Puerto Galera, the Barangay Sto. Niño also holds their fiesta. This time, Coco Beach's Shopping Arcade Clerk Glen and her husband Boknoy are the King & Queen of the Sto. Nino Fiesta. Viva Pit Señor!