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    Pintados Festival

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    The document discusses the Pintados Festival held annually in Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines. The festival began in 1987 and celebrates the indigenous people of Samar and Leyte called Pintados who were known for their tattooed bodies. It is a cultural and religious festival held on June 29th each year in honor of Santo Nino. Some key events of the festival include street dancers painted to resemble tattooed warriors and contingents that perform in the Aliwan Fiesta each year.

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    The document discusses the Pintados Festival held annually in Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines. The festival began in 1987 and celebrates the indigenous people of Samar and Leyte called Pintados who were known for their tattooed bodies. It is a cultural and religious festival held on June 29th each year in honor of Santo Nino. Some key events of the festival include street dancers painted to resemble tattooed warriors and contingents that perform in the Aliwan Fiesta each year.

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    The document discusses the Pintados Festival held annually in Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines. The festival began in 1987 and celebrates the indigenous people of Samar and Leyte called Pintados who were known for their tattooed bodies. It is a cultural and religious festival held on June 29th each year in honor of Santo Nino. Some key events of the festival include street dancers painted to resemble tattooed warriors and contingents that perform in the Aliwan Fiesta each year.

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    Pintados Festival

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    The document discusses the Pintados Festival held annually in Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines. The festival began in 1987 and celebrates the indigenous people of Samar and Leyte called Pintados who were known for their tattooed bodies. It is a cultural and religious festival held on June 29th each year in honor of Santo Nino. Some key events of the festival include street dancers painted to resemble tattooed warriors and contingents that perform in the Aliwan Fiesta each year.

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    The Pintados Festival is a cultural and religious festival celebrated annually on June 29 in Tacloban City, Leyte. It was started in 1987 to showcase the tattooed inhabitants of Samar and Leyte called Pintados and is held in honor of Santo Niño.

    The Pintados people were the heavily tattooed men and women that the Spaniards encountered in the Visayas region in 1668. They got their name from the Spanish word 'Pintado' meaning painted. They had rich tattooing traditions and worshipped the image of Santo Niño that was brought to the island by Spanish missionaries in 1888.

    GUDIO, SEPE, JAVIER, SIASAT, DUMALA-OS,

    CABALLERO

    PINTADOS

    FESTIVAL
    TACLOBAN

    CITY,

    LEYTE

    The festival was first celebrated on June 29, 1987, firstly to showcase the

    tattooed inhabitants of Samar and Leyte called Pintados.


    THE PINTADOS FESTIVAL IS A

    CULTURAL RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL

    IN TACLOBAN IN VIEW OF THE

    BODY-PAINTING CONVENTIONS

    OF THE OLD INKED "PINTADOS"

    WARRIORS.

    IN 1986, THE PINTADOS

    FOUNDATION, INC. WAS FRAMED

    BY THE GENERAL POPULATION OF

    TACLOBAN TO ARRANGE THIS

    CELEBRATION OUT OF

    APPRECIATION FOR SR. SANTO

    NINO.
    HISTORY

    IN 1668, THE SPANIARDS


    IN 1888, MISSIONARIES FROM
    CAME TO VISAYAS AND
    SPAIN BROUGHT THE CHILD JESUS
    FOUND ISLANDS WITH

    HEAVILY TATTOOED MEN


    IMAGE KNOWN AS "EL CAPITAN" TO

    AND WOMEN, WHOM THEY THE ISLAND. IT HAD A RICH AND

    CALLED PINTADOS.
    COLORFUL BACKGROUND THAT

    BROUGHT OUT THE DEVOTION AND

    WORSHIP OF THE LEYTE NATIVES

    TO THE SANTO NINO.


    PINTADOS

    FOUNDATION

    INC.

    IT WAS FOUNDED BY CIVIC- THEY BEGAN ORGANIZING RELIGIOUS

    MINDED BUSINESSMEN AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE CITY

    ENTREPRENEURS BASED IN FIESTA AND MARKED THE ADVENT OF

    TACLOBAN CITY. THE PINTADOS FESTIVAL.


    IT IS ANOTHER

    FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF

    STO. NINO

    IT SHOWS HOW

    FILIPINOS WANT TO BE

    REMINDED TO BE

    CHILDLIKE IN THEIR

    WAYS AND TO PLACE

    HOPE IN THEIR

    CHILDREN.
    THE CELEBRATION, FORMALLY

    CALLED LEYTE PINTADOS-

    KASADYAAN FESTIVAL AND

    FURTHERMORE KNOWN AS THE

    "CELEBRATION OF FESTIVALS," IS

    HELD YEARLY ON JUNE 29, THE DAY

    OF THE FEAST OF THE SENOR

    SANTO NINO DE LEYTE.


    STREET

    DANCE

    THE MOST EXPECTED ASPECT OF THE PINTADOS FESTIVAL ARE THE

    FESTIVE DANCERS, PAINTED FROM HEAD TO TOE WITH DESIGNS THAT

    LOOK LIKE ARMOR TO RESEMBLE TATTOOED WARRIORS.


    THE PINTADOS CELEBRATION

    ENCOURAGES US TO SEE THE VALUE

    AND EXCELLENCE OF THE CUSTOMS

    OF THE NATION'S PREDECESSORS.

    IT GIVES US THE CHANCE TO FEEL

    AN UNCOMMON DIRECT AFFAIR, THE

    EXPERIENCE OF CULTURE.
    THE FESTIVAL HAS BEEN GAINING

    POPULARITY BECAUSE OF THE

    CONTINGENTS THEY SEND TO THE

    ALIWAN FIESTA EVERY YEAR.

    LEYTE IS ALSO THE HOME BASE OF

    OTHER FESTIVALS LIKE ALIKARAW,

    PASAKA AND THE 2009 ALIWAN

    FIESTA CHAMPIONS, BUYOGAN.


    HTTPS://WWW.HELLOTRAVEL.COM/EVENTS/PINTADOS-FESTIVAL

    HTTPS://WWW.WHERETOGO.COM.PH/TRAVELING/PINTADOS-

    FESTIVAL

    HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/NENG0213/PINTADOS

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