Showing posts with label Passi City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passi City. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Pintados de Pasi Festival 2013 Schedule of Activities


Pintados de Pasi Festival 2013
City of Passi, Iloilo, Philippines

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

March 9
  • Opening of Food Festival
March 10
  • Talent and Festival Attire Competition – Search for Bb. Pintados 2013
March 11
  • Dumog 2013 sponsored by Team Tigers International
  • Mixed Martial Arts
March 14 | 
15th Foundation Day Anniversary
  • Parade/Pasundayag /Opening Program
  • Fireworks Display
  • Handuraw
March 15
  • Karosa Parada & Carabao Painting Contest
  • Grand Coronation Pageant-Search for Bb. Pintados 2013
March 16
  • Sinadya sa Suba / Pinta Lawas
March 17
  • Tribe Competition
  • Awarding/Closing Program
  • A Night with the Stars

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

San Guillermo Parish in Passi City, Iloilo

 San Guillermo Parish (Passi City, Iloilo)

Passi City Hall

Passi City Hall

The City of Passi is a 3rd class city in the province of Iloilo in the Philippines.Passi is a rice and sugar-rich area and the only component city and the largest in the Province of Iloilo in terms of land area, population and income.

According to popular legend, Spanish conquistadors stumbled on a small hut by the river’s bank where an old woman was fond winnowing pounded rice. One of them asked her, “¿Cómo se llama este lugar?” not knowing the native language of course. Much to the old woman’s surprise and perhaps excitement, she replied without much ado, “Ah, pasi,” which means some of the unhusked rice on her basket held in both hands. She must have thought that they were eager to know what was in the basket and what she was doing, because she could not understand their language. From that time on, the Spanish begun to call the place Pasi at first until it later evolved into Passi. Such legends about name origins are common throughout towns and cities in the Philippines, the core plot being a Spaniard asking the non-Spanish speaking natives what the name of the place is and the latter responding in what would end up eventually as the name of the place.

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