ILOCOS REGION

• Composed of 4 Provinces: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan
• Ilocos norte capital - laoag city
• ilocos sur capital - vigan city
• la union capital - san fernando city
• pangasinan capital - lingayen city
• Ilocos norte - nothern gateway of PH, Marcos country
• Ilocos sur - heart of ilocandia , land of free
• la union - surfing capital of the ph
• pangasinan - a hundred island and hundred flavor
• Region 1 - composed of 4 provinces, 9 cities, 116 municipaalities, 3265 brgy
• Cities: Batac City, Laoag City, Candon City, Vigan City, San Fernando City, Alaminos City, San Carlos City, Undaneta City, Dagupan City
• 8 Festivals of Region 1: Bac-Bacarra Festival, Guling-guling Festival, Pamulinawen Festival, Empanada Festival of Batac, Sinait Festival, Viva Vigan Festival, Longganiza Festival, and Bangus Festival
• Bac-Baccara Festival - Farmers Festival in ilocos Norte
• Guling-Guling Festival - traditional occasion before ash wedneday, in paoay ilocos norte
• Pamulinawen Festival - Annual Fiesta of Laoag, ilocos Norte. to commemorates St. William Hermit, the patron saint of laoag. a popular ilocano song
• empanada festival - charter day, famous delicacy.
• Sinait Festival - showcase talent and hardwork trait of ilocano farmers
• Viva Vigan Festival - ground celebration of the town;s cultural heritage
• Longganiza Festival - 1st festivity celebrated in Vigan
• Bangus Festival - Annual celebration in city of dagupan, highlights the city aquaculture industry
• Culture and tradition - Death tradition (ferry man)
• 12 tourist spots in region 1 - Calle crisologo (vigan), pagupud beaches, baluarte, bangui windmills, sinking bell tower, malacanang of the north, paoag lane, bolinao falls pangasinan, kapurpurawan rock formation, juan luna shrine, las paz sand dunes, sta. maria church.
• Malacanang of the north - summer residence in ilocos (president)
• malacanang or malacanan - may lakan diyan (mayaman)
• malacanang - the offical office and resident of the PH president
• malacanan - office
• the mansion: the mansion house - summer place in baguio
• the mansion; malacanang sa sugbo - visayas
• the mansion : panacanang - davao, mindanao