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Nueva Vizcaya plays up tourism in festival

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: The Ammungan Festival, the grand annual founding anniversary celebration of this province, kicked off its weeklong activities on Tuesday, May 24, with the launching of the 1st Nueva Vizcaya Travel and Tourism Expo featuring 15 municipal tourism booths.

The festivities, which will end on May 27, commemorate the 183rd founding anniversary of Nueva Vizcaya. Since 1985, May 24 has been declared by then-president Ferdinand E. Marcos as a special non-working public holiday in the province.