Tinagba Festival is a harvest-offering celebration which also coincides on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Farmers parade in carabao-drawn carts filled with the best of local produce, these are blessed at mass and are distributed to the needy. This feast originated from the early rituals of ancient Bicolanos who offered their harvest to their Gods as a way of thanksgiving and to ask more bountiful harvest.An ancient Bicolano first-harvest offering, Tinagba Festival is a reenactment held every February 11 coinciding with the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The festival features a caravan of bull carts decorated gaily and fully laden with fresh farm products. It also features revelers in Mardi-gras and native costumes dancing and parading around the city streets ending at the Grotto for the offering.
