Naga, Fluvial Parade

FLUVIAL PARADE

Yearly Naga City is celebrating its patroness blessed virgin Mary or known as Our Lady of Peñafrancia. Fluvial parade always the highlight of this event where the Patroness or her Pagoda must have to cross the river to return from Naga Metropolitan Cathedral church to her home shrine at the Basilica where it should be placed. The colorful procession will lit with a candles and prepared with a petals of flower serves as confetti when the flatboat Pagoda passes through the river and the devotees shouts "Viva La Virgen" (Long live the Virgin)(Mabuhay ang Birhen).

The celebration of Our lady of Penafrancia considered as the biggest and popular religious event in Philippines. Devotees from different part of the country flock to come here and celebrate to pay honor for the miraculous patronees of the Bicolandia. 

Devotees and pilgrims lighted candles in their hands, bows down and kneel on the ground as the colorful procession passes to put the patronees to its position and marks to start the mass honoring the blessed virgin mother.

Thousand of pilgrims from different part of the Philippines, other countries as well and different walks of life come to Naga City every third Saturday and Sunday of September. Millions of Bicolanos once again shows to the whole world their strong faith, belief and loyalty to the blessed virgin Mary.

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Tricycle of Naga City

THINGS TO KNOW

• Language
• English
• Can able to understand and speak since most of schools and local offices use it as medium language.
• Tagalog
• Mostly already in used as their secondary language
• Bicolano
• Bicolano dialect have varies in some provinces
• Here in Naga Greet everyone as
• "Dagos po kamo sa Naga" - Welcome to Naga
• "Maray na Aga" - Good Morning
• "Maray na Udto" - Good Noon
• "Maray na Hapon" - Good Afternoon
• "Maray na Banggi" - Good Evening
• "Padi" or "Madi" - Calls for a friend Boy and Girl
• "Masiram" - Delicious
• "Gurano" - How much
• "Dios Mabalos" - Thank you
• Transportations
• Bus Aircon
• P150.00 Legazpi to Naga Vice Versa
• Bus Ordinary
• P100.00 Legazpi to Naga Vice Versa
• Van
• P180.00 Legazpi to Naga Vice Versa
• Tricycle
• P8.00 within Naga City
• Foods
• It is not hard to find good food here, for a budget travelers you may find lots of Turo-turo in the City. Naga has SM already you can choose lot of restaurants inside.
• Location
• Naga City is a 2 hours drive from Legazpi City, anywhere in Bicolandia has access to this City, Airport also serves a flight from Manila and vice versa.
• Where to stay
• Sunny View Hotel
• Panganiban drive, Naga City
• (63)(54)473-8771, 473-9848
• Avenue Plaza Hotel
• Magsaysay ave, Naga City
• (63)(54)473-9999, 822-7888
• Star View Plaza Hotel
• Elias Angeles St. Naga City
• (63)(54)472-6892, 811-7171
• Villa Caceres Hotel
• Magsaysay ave, Naga City
• (63)(54)473-6530 to 33, 811-6083 to 89
• CBD Plaza Hotel
• Ninoy and Cory Ave. Triangulo, Naga City
• (63)(54)472-0318, 811-2318