DPWH personnel install tarpaulins for the national flag day along Padre Burgos Avenue

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) personnel install tarpaulins for the national flag day along Padre Burgos Avenue in Manila on Thursday, May 23, 2024.

National Flag Day in the Philippines is celebrated on May 28. It commemorates the first use of the Philippine flag after the victory in the Battle of Alapan in 1898. The current national flag of the Philippines was created by the Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo in 1897.

Photo by NORMAN ARAGA