The Giant Lantern Festival (Ligligan Parul) in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines features the city’s most well-known commodity – the illuminated stars better-known as parol.
The Philippines takes Christmas very genuinely, and there’s no place in the Philippines does Christmas just as Pampanga. Pampanga’s merchants are really distinguished for making the nation’s largest as well as most delicate parol.
Each and every year, the cream of the crop make their first appearance in the Giant Lantern Festival, as various barangays of the city vie to create the season’s outstanding parol.
The straightforward star design of the very first parol have progressed into explosions colorful lights – some flower-shaped, some very vaguely star-shaped, and wuite a few are open to interpretation!
The largest parol could be as big as 40 feet across, constructed from crepe paper, softdrink straws, glass, plastic, capiz shell, and different electronics.
Constructing these parol are matters of personal track record of the town’s parol makers – they’ll devote a great number of man-hours as well as a lot of money constructing a parol that won’t likely endure out the entire Christmas season.
History of the Christmas parol
The very first known parol was made in the year 1928, when Francisco Estanislao came up with classic five-pointed star parol to represent the Star of Bethlehem that directed the Wise Men in the direction of an infant named Jesus.
The province of Pampanga took first lead in the manufacturing as well as the conceptualization of parol – later, a lot more cutting edge designs and styles, such as all those highlighting cells of flashing lights, all began from Kapampangan artists, and created a huge splash all over the country.
In Pinoy Christmas terminology, the “Pampanga parol” has developed into a common
term for almost any delicate star lantern.
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