Formerly known as the
Baguio Flower Festival, the Panagbenga
Festival, was formed and organized last 1995 by brainchild of Attorney
Damaso Bangaoet Jr. of the John Hay Poro Point Development Corporation
(JPDC) and Victor A. Lim of the Bases Conversion Development Authority
(BCDA). Entries from the annual Camp John Hay art contest gave its
official logo which is, a spray of sunflowers. The festival was set in
February to boost tourism as it was considered as a month of inactivity
between the busy days of Christmas season and the Holy Week and the
summer season.
In 1996, archivist and curator Ike Picpican suggested that the
festival be renamed as Panagbenga, a Kankanaey term that means “a season
of blossoming, a time for flowering”.
Panagbenga Festival 2013 has always been the most awaited festival in
Baguio City (summer capital in the Philippines). A lot of tourists also
visits this place to join their festival because of the cool weather and
a lot of activities to enjoy.
The Panagbenga Festival is celebrated for
the whole month of February but the main event happens during the
street parade and float parade that are decorated with flowers. On these
days, crowd all over the city is pretty much expected.
Panagbenga came from a Malayo-Polynesian origin, that means “season
of blooming”. The Festival is celebrated to pay tribute to the city’s
flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon
earthquake.
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