On October 22, 2024, @rainbowclawds shared a video from Lucban, Quezon, Philippines, capturing a student walking with an umbrella that kept being blown by strong gusts of wind brought by a typhoon ...

To this day, the people of Lucban continue to celebrate the Pahiyas Festival—a tradition deeply rooted in faith and the spirit of gratitude. It reflects how they artistically combine fruits, ...

Native bags and “longganisa” (sausage), the people’s main sources of livelihood, are also displayed in these houses. In 2020 and 2021, the crowd-drawing celebration was canceled due to COVID ...

It’s May, and by now many houses in Lucban, Quezon, must have been adorned by kiping (brittle rice waffers). It’s in celebration of the internationally known Lucban Pahiyas Festival in honor ...

Lucban’s celebration of Pahiyas is a fitting reminder of the depth of Filipinos’ gratitude, and how beautiful their commitment to their culture and faith can be. – Rappler.com ...

What we term today as modern art is often-times just folk art and culture re-termed. The pahiyas is a fiesta, and Lucban is a town, where the folk art of the Filipino has remained environmental art.

Not until a Lucban native, Milada Dealo-Valde, 70, dared to fulfill a longtime wish to share her town’s food treasures in a coffee-table cookbook she herself prepared and authored.

QUEZON, Philippines – Residents of Lucban, Quezon took part in the annual Pahiyas festival on Monday, May 15 to celebrate the feast of San Isidro Labrador, patron saint of farmers.

According to historian Jojo Raneses, it was the local cook Juan Suarez, who taught the people of Lucban how to make longganisa. He was brought to Mexico, where he learned about chorizo de bilbao.

The title comes from the words of Apolinario de la Cruz or Hermano Pule, the radical spiritual firebrand, lodestar of the people of Lucban, who resisted the discriminations of the Spanish Catholic ...

EARLY this month, a friend asked me if I would be visiting any town celebrating the feast of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of farmers and peasants, on May 15. I told him I was going to the ...

LUCBAN, Quezon – Local leaders and citizens here have voiced their disapproval of the P260-million bank loan which they claimed the municipality was able to secure without public consultation.