Bantayan Semana Santa Processions
Maundy Thursday & Good Friday · Mar 25–26, 2027
Bantayan keeps one of the Visayas' grandest Holy Week processions: dozens of life-size Passion images on lavishly decorated carrozas, many family heirlooms passed down for generations, wind through town on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Good Friday cortège drawing tens of thousands and children dressed as angels and saints. The island's quirk: by long custom (traced to a since-lapsed 19th-century papal indult) Bantayanons eat meat through Holy Week, so it becomes an unusual time of feasting. Local's tip: this is solemn devotion, not a fiesta — dress modestly and watch the carroza procession along the route near the old St. Peter and Paul Church, and book your stay months ahead, as the island fills.
Going? The planner prices every way into Bantayan — planes, ferries and buses side by side.
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