Tag: City of Smiles

It is the Masskara Festival month in Bacolod City. Masskara literally means many faces. It was coined by Ely Santiago, a painter, cartoonist, and...

Bacolod City in Negros Occidental is also known as the City of Smiles because of its vibrant and widely renowned MassKara Festival, which culminates...

While Bacolod City continues to preserve many of its heritage structures and natural sceneries, the City of Smiles has gradually become more urbanized, evolving...

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Today’s Doodle marks the 38th anniversary of the MassKara Festival in the Philippines, a popular celebration known for its vibrant masks, feathers, costumes (like the...

Until 2004, Bacolod was largely a sleepy city, largely known for sweet piyayas, majestic sceneries, and idyllic haciendas.  No one ever thought of the...