Filipinos are very fond of merrymaking, thus the celebration of festivals all over the country. Almost every town or province has its own festival, which they dedicate to their patron saints as a manner of thanksgiving. These are categorized as Religious Festivals. Other festivals can be considered as Cultural, Harvest, and Film Festivals.

Even before the Spaniards came, the Filipinos already had festivals, though these festivals are still in their ethnic forms.  Later on, these pagan rituals  became influenced and mixed with the colonial cultures, with Mexican-Spanish as the most prominent. Altars of blood and fire were replaced by Christian altars, fertility gods by the Virgin, and the wild spirits of the earth by the supreme spirits of heaven.