Kannawidan Ylocos festival

    Kannawidan Ylocos Festival is the official Festival of the Province of Ilocos Sur.    So, what is its essence for the people, the traders, and in the community?

    For the people, Kannawidan is one way for them to experience, know, learn, and love the different cuisines, cultures, traditions, and exhibits of their own province, of their own place. This festivity has a great impact to the people for it shows how their province lived and lives. The activity creates a magnificent  influence that pulls people together in one area of the province and makes an amalgamating once in a year experience as traders all over the province and all over the Philippines showcase their wide array of reasonably priced products.

     For traders, Kannawidan is a place, an activity and a way of how their living worked and works. Kannawidan is  a place for showcasing products like furniture, horticultures, crafts, cuisines, the province’s OTOP, and products coming from external towns and/or provinces. Kannawidan is an activity that unites dealers/merchants to one place and create a market of beauty, food, and creativity.

     For the community, Kannawidan is  the best place to enjoy nature’s gifts, it is the best place to create a coalescing community. Kannawidan is a place for showcasing talents, brains, beauties, and the creative hospitality that we, Filipinos, especially Ilocanos have