Carrión de los Condes - floral carpet tomorrow

[Bradypus]

Anyone fortunate enough to be passing through Carrión de los Condes tomorrow is likely to encounter huge crowds and a spectacular sight. The town makes a patterned carpet of flowers up to 2km long for its annual Corpus Christi procession. The ayuntamiento have a number of videos capturing this very colourful event. Would love to be there to see it!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I was fortunate to walk past a beautiful finished floral carpet on my recent Camino Sanabres in Ourense. It was so vibrant and colorful and had a tent canopy and a simple fence surrounding it.

P.S. This was on Sunday, May 5th...I wonder if it was made for a special holiday.

 

[Juspassinthru]

Anyone fortunate enough to be passing through Carrión de los Condes tomorrow is likely to encounter huge crowds and a spectacular sight. The town makes a patterned carpet of flowers up to 2km long for its annual Corpus Christi procession. The ayuntamiento have a number of videos capturing this very colourful event. Would love to be there to see it!

We saw a very similar carpet in Sarria in 2017 also for Corpus Christi.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

One of my Camino girlfriends is on FB, I think in a Camiga FB group and she just now sent me this so I took a screenshot.
Anyone else have pictures of these delightful flower creations from any of your Caminos?

 

[ELHS220]

Anyone fortunate enough to be passing through Carrión de los Condes tomorrow is likely to encounter huge crowds and a spectacular sight. The town makes a patterned carpet of flowers up to 2km long for its annual Corpus Christi procession. The ayuntamiento have a number of videos capturing this very colourful event. Would love to be there to see it!

Yes, Carrión on Corpus Christi is a real treat. This was 2022.

 

[K_Lynn]

Oh WOW!! Dang it! Now I have to plan a Camino around one of these events!

 

[peregrina2000]

What great pictures. Just to say that many towns and villages in Portugal follow the same tradition. I’ve come across several, and it is usually part of a bigger operation — a few people working on the flowers, others cooking food, transporting bags of petals, etc. In my experience, the local people are happy to have outsiders enjoy their traditions.

Lots of observations come to mind about reverence, devotion, dedication, fleeting humanity, impermanence...… how lucky to see these spectacular floral displays that take days to make and minutes to be crushed. Sort of like sand mandalas, seems to me, though I say that with no real understanding of Tibetan Buddhism.

And I agree with Chrissy that it would be great to see some more pictures!