moro-moro

Originally known as Doce Pares de Francia, plays which dramatized the triumph of the Spanish Christians over the Muslim Moors were introduced to the Philippines by the Spanish via Mexico in the 17th century. They were renamed by the Filipinos to larong moro-moro and used as a vehicle to preserve and develop their fighting arts. Garimot arnis preserves the traditional sequences and training methods that originate from Paete, Laguna.