The Confraternity of flowers and palms (El Salvador)
Nomination: Representative List 2025
EN: The Confraternity of flowers and palms concludes its celebrations with a procession that takes place on La Ronda street where both, the Virgen del Rosario and Inmaculada Conceptión are carried, beautifully decorated with palms, accompanied by traditional dances and muscicians
EN: Bearer in traditional 'pancha' attire, wearing over her head the 'paño pancho' woven on backstrap looms
EN: The palms are a form of ephemeral art with geometric designs and color mixtures obtained from the combination of seasonal blooms, such as bougainvillea, plumeria, shrimp flower, among others, and constitute the most distintive feature of the celebrations
EN: The procession begins in the houses of the Cofrades and continues on the the colonial church of Santa Cruz de Roma for the Mass. The town's women dress in traditional attire and wear the distinctive 'paño pancho' covering theier heads
EN: The Confraternities and the town's people gather for the preparation and cleaning of palm leaflets that will later be strung with flowers
EN: Preparation of the palms requires hand stringing of the dry pinnae using mostly plumeria flowers, social gatherings and the town's people partcipation is encouraged
EN: At the Capitana's house, cooks and helpers prepare food, such as tamales, arroz aguado with chicken or pork, tortillas, coffee and fruit drinks, to offer to visitors to the Confraternity
EN: Los Historiantes dancers lead the procession at the exit of the Santa Cruz de Roma colonial church accompanied by muscicians playing reed whistles and drums. Their attire involves the confection of masks and headdresses with zoomorphic figures.
EN: Anda bearers transporting the image of the Virgen de la Concentión, dressed in traditional attire, the 'paño pancho' covering their heads is woven on a backstrap loom using ancestral techniques and its pattern and color combinations are unique to Panchimalco
EN: The images of the Virgin Mary in her advocations of 'the Rosary' and 'Immaculate Conception', lie on shoulder-borne floats and palanguins called 'andas' in front of the main altar of the colonial church of Santa Cruz before the procession
