Vigan is place where “time stood still”. The City of
Vigan is an exceptionally intact and well-preserved example of a European
trading town in East and East Asia. Its architecture reflects the fusion of
cultural elements from the Philippines and Europe, resulting in a culture and
townscape that has no parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.
Every September, Vigan City celebrates the World
Heritage Cities Solidarity Cultural Festival. In this celebration aims to
strengthen the pride in the City’s history and culture, promote friendship and divinity.
It serves as a great venue for forging ties and understanding through community’s
involvement in the city’s various activities that depicts love for culture,
arts and entertainment.
The festival in not only a month-long festivity in
solidarity with other World Heritage Cities. But also an enactment of Republic
Act No. 10066 of the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009.
One-day celebration isn’t enough to showcase the
heritage of the city, so the government made it a whole month celebration. Ilocano
culture will explode through different competitions. Bigueños are also asked
to come out of their ancestral or modern-age houses to relish the Ilocano
culture and the history of Vigan. This is trough songs, dances, stage plays, literature,
street drama complete with floats.
Preserving the Ilocano culture is a way of bringing the city’s history to
life.
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