These lanterns used channel sequencers to let the lights go on ... been sustaining the 114-year-old tradition of making giant Christmas lanterns. The lantern festival is staged annually here ...

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—This capital city of Pampanga, the country’s “Christmas capital” and home to the giant parul (lantern), is ... which functions like a sequencer. Its sizes vary from ...

No workers welding frames or fitting sequencers. No Christmas songs ... “We need to lift the Christmas spirit.” Lanterns that stand as high as three-story buildings are made in November.