The city government of Zamboanga have decided to celebrate the Zamboanga Hermosa Festival 2020 virtually due to the pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) which will start end of September till end of October.
Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar in a virtual press briefing Thursday evening said, “We will concentrate on quarantine and Covid-19 safe activities which will mostly be virtual.”
The Mascota competition will continue, Tiktok challenge, and other activities while the Archdiocese of Zamboanga will take care of the religious activities.
The festival main program with the street dance is usually being conducted at the Joaquin F. Enriquez Memorial Sports Complex every October 11 while religious activities such as the procession is being done October 12.
The celebration of the Zamboanga Hermosa Festival is in honor of the city’s patron saint Nuestra Señora La Virgen del Pilar de Zaragoza. (R.G. Antonet A. Go)
(Source: Virtual press briefing of Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar)