The Giant Lantern Festival is an annual festival held in December (Saturday before Christmas Eve) in the City of San Fernando in the Philippines. The festival features a competition of giant lanterns. Because of the popularity of the festival, the city has been nicknamed the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines”.
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Craziness! These would be great to see “life size”!
These remind me of one of the few good things about Blackpool, the place I grew up. They still have an annual festival of lights called the Illuminations when they fill miles of seafront with things like this.