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STA. Rosa City Mayor Arlene Arcillas, Vice Mayor Arnold Arcillas and EK president and chairman Ramon Mamon led the ceremonial lightning of Giant Parol at the Enchanted Kingdom(EK).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EK, the first and only world class theme park in the Philippines, highlights the Filipino Christmas tradition through the launch of EK\u2019s Giant Parol at the Agila Grounds on November 26.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Actor Matteo Guidicelli also graced the event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Mamon, EK is committed to showcase the Filipino Christmas tradition of parols and local festive decorations to bring nostalgia during the holiday season.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe are very excited to share with you the biggest parol in the Philippines!\u201d It is our aspiration to provide a destination where families can create their enchanted Christmas stories,\u201d Mamon said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EK tapped renowned lantern maker from Pampanga, Eric Bondoc Quiwa, in the creation of the 22-foot parol installed at the Agila Grounds. This is the centerpiece of the theme park\u2019s holiday events, along with 100 parols around the park.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EK\u2019s chief operating officer Cynthia Mamon shared that the making of the biggest parol is a three-week labor of love — from conceptualization and design, up to framing, welding, partitioning, installing the electrical components, then lastly, finishing. It is illuminated by 1,700 LED lights and will have a daily show of lights every night at the park.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EK is also set to showcase their homegrown talents through their Christmas shows such as Christmas At The Kingdom (EK Story), Brooklyn Diaries: Oh Paskong Maligaya (OPM) and Eldar\u2019s Christmas Parade featuring its storybook characters to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The park is now open six times a week from Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m..<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Starting December 18, the theme park will also open its gates everyday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with extended hours on selected special holidays until January 7, 2024.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STA. Rosa City Mayor Arlene Arcillas, Vice Mayor Arnold Arcillas and EK president and chairman Ramon Mamon led the ceremonial lightning of Giant Parol at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}