Stories
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From the Augustinians' Hacienda de San Jose de Calampaui to a town named, most likely, for a white-flowered shrub.
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Opera-tune Pasyon chants, penitents on the roads and a Christ taken down from the cross: the Holy Week traditions of Pampanga.
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Why Pampanga celebrates every December 11, and how a day for the province became a showcase of its towns' festivals.
Culture
Frogs are a Kapampangan delicacy, and San Fernando has a festival to prove it, with frog races, catching contests and cooking.
Culture
Behind the 1753 church, a short street of colonial houses and a chapel tells Arayat's story as an old Pampanga town.
Culture
How an Arayat artist built a home out of crushed mountain rock, inspired by the temples of Angkor.
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Sasmuan's devotion to Saint Lucy, patron of the blind and of couples hoping for a child, and the January Kuraldal.
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How a Spanish spelling turned an old Kapampangan meeting place into a joke, and why the town changed it back.
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From medieval Spanish street theatre to Mexico to a Pampanga town: the strange journey of Santa Ana's Christmas giants.
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A 1619 painted map, four patio chapels and a hidden carved heart: why Minalin's church is a National Cultural Treasure.
Culture
How a Spanish friar, a fruit vendor and a pueblo of San Miguel gave Pampanga's southernmost town its name.
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Why Lubao, low and muddy by name, claims to be Pampanga's oldest town and the cradle of Kapampangan culture.
Culture
Guagua lists guitars and ukuleles among its local products. A look at the town's instrument-making and how to buy well.
Culture
Why Apalit calls itself the blacksmith capital of Pampanga, and its link to the 16th-century cannon maker Panday Pira.
Community
Since 1844, Apalit has carried its ivory-faced Saint Peter down the Pampanga River every June. A look at the libad.
Culture
Why San Luis was once called Cabagsac, and how its parish church still shares its roof with fruit bats.
Culture
The shortbread pressed in carved wooden moulds that Kapampangans associate with San Nicolas de Tolentino.
Culture
How Macabebe's families of statue-makers carve, paint and dress the saints carried in processions across the country.
Culture
Meet the upland barangays of Nabuclod and Mawacat, home of the Ayta Mag-Indi, Pampanga's first settlers.
Community
How a town of metal-hammerers turned its craft into a street dance, and why Floridablanca celebrates the pukpuk.