Pamitinan Festival

Street dancers from the various barangays of Rodriguez town in Rizal interpret the legend of mythical hero Bernardo Carpio as part of the Pamitinan Festival to mark its 109th municipal founding anniversary. According to legend, Carpio is a man with supernatural strength trapped between two great rocks in the mountains of Montalban, preventing them from crashing into each other. The weeklong festivity is named after Pamitinan Mountain, used as a stronghold of the Katipunan revolutionary movement led by Andres Bonifacio, which first declared the country’s independence from Spain in 1895.