LOILO Dinagyang Foundation, Inc. executive director Ben Jimena in his message during the Miss Iloilo Dinagyang coronation night said that after 40 years, Dinagyang Festival, touted as the best tourism event in the country, has finally arrived, having gotten out of the stigma as a copycat of Kalibo’s Ati-atihan. Continue Reading »
Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival roared off into fervid thumping of drums and costumed tribes of dancers pirouetting to the delight of hundreds of thousands of spectators, both locals and foreigners, throughout Sunday. Continue Reading »
LOILO CITY – Intermittent rain failed to dampen the festive mood of revelers in yesterday’s highlight of the Dinagyang Festival.
Fortunately, it did not rain during the fireworks competition Saturday night at the old airport site, where 18 fireworks manufacturers across the country participated. Continue Reading »
City Mayor Jerry Treñas asked the City Engineers Office (CEO) to check on the possibility of constructing a second floor for the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand to accommodate more spectators during Dinagyang festival. Continue Reading »
Music literally livened Iloilo City over the weekend with concerts after concerts, shows after shows and street revelry dominating the celebration.
With stages set up all over city proper, name it and the city had it from local bands and guest performers from Manila. Continue Reading »
The province of Iloilo aims this year to surpass Nueva Ecija as the number one rice producer in the country.
Iloilo Provincial Agriculture Office (IPAO) head Ildefonso Toledo said that the province is working hard to regain its lost glory as the top rice producer of the country. Continue Reading »
“IT WAS really beyond my wildest expectation!”
This was how Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas described the 40th edition of Dinagyang Festival which climaxed over the weekend. Continue Reading »
More than 50,000 came to watch the first pyro olympics to be held in Iloilo City. The event, which took place during the Dinagyang Festival on January 26, 2007 had SM City as the judging area. Not only was the parking lot of SM City jam packed, most people, who wanted to watch the grand fireworks contest, trooped to surrounding areas such as the open field of Brgy. San Rafael, the Old Airport Lot (now owned by Megaworld), and Smallville.
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The Dinagyang 2008 was a big success! Approximately 1.5M people reportedly came to Iloilo to witness the best tourism event in the Country (as awarded by the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines for two consecutive years). Explore Iloilo would like to thank the Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc. (IFDI) for acknowledging ExploreIloilo.com as one of the media sponsors of the Dinagyang Festival 2008 and linking ExploreIloilo.com to the IDFI Official Website. More Power to you guys!
(January 26, 2008)
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Iloilo is distinguished as holding the second biggest celebration of the Chinese New Year after Manila. This Year of the Rat, the Chinese New Year will be celebrated on the 7th of February in the Downtown District of Iloilo (also known as Iloilo’s Chinatown). Many attractions and events are lined up during the event, which has grown into a major festival in the city.
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