The Panagbenga Festival in Baguio City, now on its 20th year, pays tribute to the city’s beautiful blooms.
Although it’s a month-long celebration, the flower festival’s highlights include the Grand Street Dancing Parade and the Grand Float Parade.
The street dancing parade happens on a seven-kilometer stretch of street and involves performers garbed in colorful costumes decorated with flowers performing the Bendian dance.
In the Grand Float Parade, Baguio highlights its artistry in the flower float creations that glide through the streets.
The Panagbenga Festival 2015 theme is “Across Twenty Years of Blossoming Together”.
Panagbenga Festival highlights
Grand Street Dancing Parade
February 28
Locations: Panagbenga Park, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl
Grand Float Parade
March 1
Locations: DILG, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl
Panagbenga 2015 schedule
Here’s the fully Panagbenga Festival 2015 schedule of activities:
February 1, 2015
* Opening Ceremonies and Street Dancing Parade Competition
(Drum and Lyre Dance Competition – Elementary Division)
Locations: Panagbenga Park, Session Road, Harrison Road, Baguio Athletic Bowl
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 2 – 14, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 15, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Handong ng Panagbenga sa Pamilya Baguio
Location: Melvin Jones
* Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Location: Melvin Jones
* Panagbenga 2015 Kite-Flying Challenge
Location: Melvin Jones
* Panagbenga Variety Show
Location: Melvin Jones
* Fireworks Display
Location: Melvin Jones
February 16 – 18, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 19, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Chinese Spring Festival
Location: City-wide
February 19 – 22, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* PMA Grand Alumni Home Coming
Location: Philippine Military Academy, Loakan Road
February 23 – 27, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Floral Arrangement Competition and School-based Landscaping Competition (Judging)
Location: Elementary and High schools in Baguio City
February 28, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Grand Street Dancing Parade
Locations: Panagbenga Park, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl
* Sponsors’ and Exhibitors’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl
March 1 , 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Grand Float Parade
Locations: DILG, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl
* Sponsors’and Exhibitors’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl
* Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
March 2 – 6, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
March 7, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
* Pony Boys’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl
March 8, 2015
* Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
* Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
* Panagbenga Closing Ceremonies and Grand Fireworks Display
Locations: Athletic Bowl and various areas in Baguio’s (Central Business District) CBD
Panagbenga 2015 Schedule of Activities
Source: Baguio City official website