Giong festival attracts visitors5/3/2017 9:42:04 PMThe Giong Festival began in Phu Dong village, Gia Lam district, Hanoi, on May 2 or the seventh day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, attracting many tourists. Thousands of visitors flock to Giong festival5/20/2013 9:03:00 PMSome 30,000 people on May 18 flocked to Gia Lam district of Hanoi to attend the main day of Giong Festival 2013, commemorating Saint Giong, who legend says turned from a child to a giant overnight to fight against invaders in the past... Thousands of people flock to Giong Festival 20115/12/2011 9:16:29 PMPANO - Despite a scorching day, thousands of visitors flocked to the Giong Temple Relic Site in Phu Dong Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi to take part in the Giong Festival 2011 on May 11th, the 9th day of the lunar April... UNESCO Certificate granted to Giong Festival1/22/2011 10:19:53 PMA ceremony was held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO to grant UNESCO Certificate recognising the saint Giong Festival as a World Intangible Heritage, in Hanoi, on January 22... Giong festival recognised as a world intangible cultural heritage1/21/2011 9:37:51 PMPANO - The Giong Festival will receive a UNESCO certificate as a “world’s intangible cultural heritage” at a ceremony, to be jointly held by the Hanoi People’s Committee and the UNESCO office in Vietnam, on January 22nd, at Phu Dong and Soc Temples in Hanoi. Giong Festival recognized as intangible cultural heritage11/17/2010 9:11:48 PMAt the fifth session of the UNESCO Inter-governmental committee, held on November 16th in Nairobi, Kenya, Vietnam’s Giong Festival at Phu Dong and Soc Temples was recognized as a mankind’s intangible cultural heritage... Giong festival passes UNESCO’s first verification round1/28/2010 9:21:39 PMDossier of the Vietnamese Giong festival which was sent to UNESCO for recognition as intangible cultural heritage has been said to have enough technical factors to submit to the UNSECO’s Intergovernmental Committee for further appraisal...
Ceremony marks decade of Giong festival as UNESCO heritage of humanity
A ceremony took place in Hanoi on the evening of December 11 to celebrate 10 years since Vietnam's Giong festival was accredited by the UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.