STUNNING CHRISTMAS STARS. The Giant Lantern Festival 2020 takes center stage at the Robinsons Starmills in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga on Thursday night (Dec. 16, 2021). The annual festival was staged not as a competition but as a virtual exhibition by lantern makers from the city's seven participating villages.(Photo by City Government of San Fernando) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - Not even the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic can pull the plug on Pampanga's Giant Lantern Festival (GLF), which this city holds every year to illuminate the time for joy and hope among Filipinos. Now on its 113th year, the world-renowned "Ligligan Parul" took center stage on Thursday night at Robinsons Starmills here to keep the Kapampangan's cultural tradition alive despite the presence of the virus. For the second time, the event was not held as a competition but as a digital exhibition of seven giant lanterns from Barangays Sto. Nino, San Juan, San Nicolas, S