Editing Visayas (section)

== Culture and festivals ==
[[File:Anini-y Church, 2018.jpg|thumb|432x432px|[[Anini-y|Anini-y church]] ]]
[[Visayans]] are recognized as hospitable, religious, fun, and robust people. They love to party and celebrate birthdays, graduation, baptism, weddings, and holidays. [[Visayans]] like to sing ([[Karaoke]]) while drinking and dancing during this celebration. They love to cook traditional foods like [[Suman (food)|Suman]], [[Sapin-sapin|Sapin- Sapin]], and [[Bibingka]] made with sticky rice during Halloween. They visited their dead loved ones at the cemetery. Aside from celebrations, Visayas has sweet and delicious mangoes that you can find in [[Guimaras]] near [[Iloilo City]]. White Beach Resort is called [[Boracay]]. It is a well-known beautiful beach located in [[Western Visayas]] at [[Malay, Aklan|Caticlan]] Province. Many foreign people love to visit this beach, which is full of fun summer activities and beachside restaurants, bars, and souvenir shops. You can also find the Seafood Capital of the [[Philippines]], located at [[Roxas City|Roxas, City]] Province of [[Capiz]]. You can taste fresh seafood daily, like shrimp, crabs, prawns, seashells, and fish.

[[Visayans]] honor their traditions and culture by celebrating festivals as they are known to be Roman Catholic or Christianity in religion. These festivals are celebrated in tribute to their saints, to share peace and happiness, to give thanks for the abundant harvest, and to advertise their products. [[Visayans]] are  known for their different festivals celebrated in other cities of Visayan Island.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visayans in Hawaii, UHM Center for Philippine Studies |url=http://www.hawaii.edu/cps/visayans.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.hawaii.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Romulo |first=Liana |title=Filipino Celebration A treasury of feast and festival |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |year=2012}}</ref>

[[Sinulog|Sinulog Festival]] is celebrated every third Sunday in January in [[Cebu City]]. This festival is a tribute to their saint, [[Santo Niño de Cebú|Senior Santo Nino de Cebu.]] The Sinulog festival includes parades, fluvial processions, dances, Cebu beauty pageants, and sometimes arts contests. Some other parts of [[Cebu]] provinces participated in the celebration by performing traditional dances and decorating a float, or Higantes, to represent their patron.[[File:Sinulog Festival (2023) contingents in street dance 01.jpg|thumb|[[Sinulog Festival]], one of the grandest festivals in the Philippines held in Cebu. ]][[Ati-Atihan festival|Ati-Atihan Festival]] is celebrated every third Sunday in January, like [[Sinulog|Sinulog Festival]]. It is held in [[Kalibo|Kalibo, Aklan]], on [[Panay|Panay Island]], where the first [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous people]] settled, called [[Ati people|Aestas]], or [[Ati people|Ati's]]. This festival devotes to the mystery of baby Jesus and Indigenous people. The people who participated painted their bodies and face and wore indigenous costumes and props. This festival plays music, drums, and parades for several days.

[[Dinagyang|Dinagyang Festival]] is celebrated in [[Iloilo City]] on the fourth Sunday of January.  This festival marked the baby Jesus Senior Sto. Nino. At [[Ati-Atihan festival|Ati-Atihan Festival]] in [[Aklan]], [[Dinagyang]] also has [[Ati people|Ati's]] dancing to celebrate the entry of [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]] in [[Panay|Panay Island]], colorful costumes, and a Pageant for [[Miss Iloilo]]; Sadsad is a procession with a decorated float. Schools and businesses in [[Barangay]]s in this city participate in dancing competitions at this festival.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Funtecha |first=Henry Florida |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQaCAAAAMAAJ&q=festival+in+visayas+island+philippines |title=Popular Festivals in Western Visayas |date=1992 |publisher=Center for West Visayan Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines in the Visayas |language=en}}</ref>