The Hermosa Festival also known as Zamboanga La Hermosa Festival or popularly known as Fiesta Pilar a month-long festival held each year in the city of Zamboanga, the city center of Zamboanga Peninsula Region in the Philippines. It is one of the Oldest Festival in the Country and the most awaited Event in the Region.
The Festival is being held in honor of the miraculous image of Our Lady of the Pillar (Spanish and Chavacano: Nuestra Señora del Pilar), the patroness of Zamboanga City which is held in every 12th of October.
The beautiful city of Zamboanga welcomes thousands to the region’s biggest, most extravagant celebration of the year.
The festival features so many different activities such us street dance competition were different schools in the city are fighting for the title, from the street to the main event which everyone will show their best talent. Major activities include the Wow Zamboanga showing the different tastes, talents and ideas to shows what your barangay has that others are not; Regatta De Zamboanga were the famous Vintas of Zamboanga are racing to win the title, one of the most awaited event in the festivities; Cosechas De Zamboanga, sports events, musical concerts, agriculture-trade fairs, fashion show, chavacano song festival , Miss Zamboanga and other special events to be held every year.
There are also art exhibitions and colorful flower shows displaying the botanical wonders of Mindanao’s tropical vegetations. (Watch out for the orchids, which are particularly striking). ‘Hermosa’, which means beautiful, is an appropriate term for this visually dazzling event.