Solidary and Unity at its Finest

                   We Ilocanos shared differently, we are separated by our own unique culture and wide heritage, and yet we are all standing as a whole, a group which is diversity is the foundation, and the act of solidarity that must shared to the rest of the world. Solidarity festival a way to remember and to be remembered

                    Vigan was awarded as the UNESCO's Best practice in World Heritage Management, in the year 2012. And in 2014, Vigan was named as one of the New Seven Wonder-Cities of the World and officially inaugurated as such on May 7 its next year. In December 1999, because Vigan City is the "best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia it was listed in the UNESCO World Heritage list of sites and monuments as the city, which was established in the Spanish era.

                     For every year, of the month of September, Ilocanos celebrated World Heritage Cities Solidary Cultural Festival. The aim of this festival is to connect different world heritage cities to share and preserve their own culture, strengthen diversity and friendship.  This festival also aims to reactivate and strengthen cultural activities as well as to promote the young generations role in the conversation of the city's tangible and intangible heritage.

                    The participants dramatize the way of life from Spanish time up to the period after World War II while they walk through the designated parade route, accompanied by music.

                     This is festivity  is participated by the 39 barangays of Vigan City, especially students and member of non government organizations. Different activities will be held to welcome the Solidarity Month such as Opening of the Solidarity Festival Food and Trade, Folkdance Competition; and Zarzuela Ilocana, a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scene.

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