Unique tradition: Millena

Castilla has been one of the municipality in the province of Sorsogon gaining recognition because of its own unique Festival purchasing what it has to offer to improve the locality, the UNOD Festival. It is a celebration and thanksgiving of the bounty harvest of rich agricultural resources in the municipality, and an opportunity for the farmers to display their products, which are usually root crops, a definition of “unod” term used in our locality. It has been a tradition to display the products of the farmers coming from different Barangays in the municipality in the structured booths, to showcase the cultivated richness of the land of Castilla and encourage the people to give priority to agriculture. This tradition is popularly called as “tinagba”, thanksgiving practice wherein the priests blesses the exhibited products, and the people choses the best unod to be offered during the mass. On the other hand, the other products are being sold to other consumers in a very affordable price to give a little help to the hardworking farmers. A festival refining the culture of Castillanos plays a vital role for its people. These products are considered to be the asset of our municipality which has the best potential to be developed into a new and innovative one that can be imported to other places. For the past years, people are being dependent to the root crops, rice and coconuts abundant in our place that are considered to be alternative food during calamities and in times of shortage of supply.