Kassanggayhan

 Kassanggayhan is one of our tradition perhaps the largest tradition that we in Sorsogon every October of each year, the Kasanggayahan Festival is celebrated in Sorsogon in commemoration of its foundation as a Province. It is a province-wide festival, with the center of activities in Sorsogon City.

   The Festival is highlighted by the inimitable Pantomina sa Tinampo. Pantomina, a traditional Bikol dance, is known as a dance of love and courtship  actually the dance of the doves or  sinalampati  ( salampati is Bikol for dove), as it was then known before the coming of the Spanish colonizers.The Pantomina, or  pantomime, imitates, in dance, the courtship and lovemaking of the doves. But it is only in   Sorsogon where this is danced in the streets, or tinampo, by droves of eager dancers wearing colorful native attire, as they cajole and coax tourists and onlookers to join in the fun and merrymaking, partake of tuba, the native coconut wine, and lechon, or roast pig, carried by dancers as they swing and sway and do their love dance down the streets of Sorsogon.