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The Lechon Festival is the highlight of the fiesta in honor of the city's patron, Santa. Teresa de Avila. 


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The Lechon Festival, which is the highlight of the fiesta, is aimed at entrenching Talisay City as the lechon capital of the Philippines. 


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The Lechon Festival is the highlight of the fiesta in honor of the city's patron, Santa. Teresa de Avila. 


The parade started at the South Coastal Road in barangay San Isidro and ended at the bridge fronting the new Talisay City Hall where the pigs were displayed on a long table, to be eaten by their respective contingents. 


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The Lechon Festival, which is the highlight of the fiesta, is aimed at entrenching Talisay City as the lechon capital of the Philippines. 


This may not be an official tagline yet for the city but its officials and residents want to enshrine its almost 60-year history of distinctive lechon-making.


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Lechon festival, world-renowned triathlon race energize Cebu after 'Odette'

By Kathleen A. Llemit | August 20, 2022 - 10:46am

Cebuanos and tourists indulged in decadent servings of flavorful slow-roasted pork at the Lechon Festival while also experiencing...

Travel and Tourism

Pangasinan town holds lechon festival amid ASF scare

By Eva Visperas | October 8, 2019 - 12:00am

A lechon festival was held in this town yesterday to assure the public that pork sold at the local market is safe to eat amid the African swine fever (ASF) scare.

Nation

Dagupan holds lechon cook-off

By Eva Visperas | April 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Thirty roasted pigs vied yesterday for the top prize in a cook-off at the city plaza in the first-ever Lechon Festival here.

Nation

Lechon for Thanksgiving at Tong Yang Shabu-Shabu & BBQ

November 25, 2010 - 12:00am

Tong Yang Shabu-Shabu & BBQ Restaurant will serve lechon in its Eat & Drink All-You-Can Buffet on the weekend on Nov. 27 to 28.

Food and Leisure

They went to the Lechon Fest thinking lechon was free

By The Ear | October 19, 2005 - 12:00am

EMPTY HANDED. Four young men from Pardo, Cebu City, went to Talisay City to witness the much-talked-about Lechon Festival last Sunday. Each of them had plastic bags believing that the lechon (about 200 of them) would...

Freeman Opinion

Talisay celebrates 1st Lechon Festival

October 16, 2005 - 12:00am

More than 100 roasted pigs, some dressed in costumes like long gowns, wigs, even bikinis, were paraded around Talisay City yesterday afternoon as part of the first Lechon Festival in Cebu. The Lechon Festival...

Cebu News

Talisay City celebrates Lechon Festival today

October 15, 2005 - 12:00am

Thousands of local and foreign tourists are expected to revel in Talisay City for the first Lechon Festival today, coinciding with the fiesta celebration in honor of the city's patroness, Sta. Teresa de Avila. The...

Cebu News