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Liliw, Laguna - Gat Tayaw Tsinelas Festival

This festival was named after Liliw’s founder, Gat Tayaw, who named the town after the sound of a bird’s song. The festival being celebrated in April & May, the festival will feature the agricultural and industrial products of the town. Historical and cultural themes will be highlighted, but the most fundamental subject of the festival, which Liliw is so well-known, will be the shoe and slipper industry.  

Liliw, Laguna - Gat Tayaw Tsinelas Festival

The Municipality of Liliw’s Gat Tayaw Tsinelas Festival is a yearly celebrated festival held during the last week of April. Based from its name, this festival showcases the primary industry of the said “Footwear Capital of Laguna”.
 
The footwear industry that the generation of today inherited is continuously improving through the efforts of Liliw Mayor Cesar C. Sulibit. And as a result, the municipality became one of the many famous tourist spots in Laguna. Their different kinds of footwear are famous all over the Philippines because of its attractive and in-style collection of slippers, shoes, and sandals.
 
All footwear stores and festival booths are situated on Gat Tayaw Street. The Festival booths showcase the rich history of the town of Liliw, Disenyong Liliweño, Tsinelas Making, Uraro Biscuit Making, Eko-Turismo (Kilangin Falls), Agri-Turismo, and Lutuing Liliw. Besides these attractions, the Municipal Government of Liliw prepared a lot of fun activities that everyone will surely enjoy. 
 
Aside from their footwear industry, the peaceful town of Liliw is also famous for their delicious and powdery cookies called Uraro (or sometimes called Araro). These are flower-shaped cookies with a distinctive milky taste that melts in the mouth. 
 
Liliw, Laguna
 
Liliw is a fourth class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. It is one of the highland towns forming the southern extremity of the province. It is situated at the foot of Mt. Banahaw. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 33,851.

Liliw has a total land area of 3,910 hectares (9,700 acres). It is bounded on the north-west by Sta. Cruz; north-east by Magdalena; on the east by Majayjay; on the west by Nagcarlan; and on the south by Dolores, Quezon.

Liliw is perhaps best known for its cold water spring resorts, native homemade sweets and a sizeable shoe industry that rivals that of Marikina City.

Founded in 1571 by Gat Tayaw, the small town of Liliw is nestled at the foot of Mount Banahaw, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Santa Cruz, Laguna's capital.
 
Liliw, Laguna - Gat Tayaw Tsinelas Festival


Festivals in the Province of Laguna

Cultural identity is a fundamental source of our social empowerment. With confidence we can nurture and develop the characters, concepts, and ideas that are native to us. There are social and economic benefits that come from the practice of distinct cultural skills. A strong sense of community allows people to be more expressive resulting in the enrichment of arts and crafts, culinary creativity becomes the norm, and celebrations become colorful and enduring. Thus, cultural energy induces positive self-image and becomes the foundation of unity, which is supremely tolerant of cultural diversity.

In tapping our people’s greatest asset for sustainable development, the Provincial Government of Laguna embarks in supporting the holding of festivals to cultivate and harness cultural strengths and resources. This way the Provincial Government will be promoting people participation, local genius and cultural identity, because local communities, not the state, are the ultimate actors in the development process. Provincial governance is most effective and productive if it is culturally rooted. Encouraging celebration of the unique identities of local communities through various activities and various forms can inspire harmony and economic engagement in our society

In Laguna, all cities and municipalities have their own festivals attuned to the uniqueness of their communities.

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