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Corpus Christi and Romeria of San Isidro Labrador

THE OCTAVE OF CORPUS CHRISTI

This Corpus festival was celebrated in La Orotava since its origins as population, but it started to gain a reputation since 1847, when some members of the Monteverde family, made a flower tapestry to celebrate the passing of the Andas del Corpus in front of their private house. The tapestries constitute one of the most representative artistic manifestations in La Orotava: Tapestries made of flowers on the Historic Centre streets, and of volcanic sands from the Teide National Park in the Town Hall Square.
The tapestry of the Town Hall Square is being tailored since the early 20th century. In the tapestry, it can be highlighted the perfection of images using three-dimensional effects, which make it even more spectacular and turn it into a major tourist attraction.

Since 1905

Since the first carpet was made in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento back in February 1905 by Guzmán Codesido Varela and Agustín Monteverde y Lugo, counting that of 2021, one hundred and sixteen carpets have been made, 13 of which have been special cataloged and the rest made for the Blessed Sacrament Corpus Christi, including among these, the two that were made in 1942. In 1905 the first two were made. One in February for the Spanish Navy and another, the second, in May for the visit of the Minister of the Navy. In March 1906, the third was made, the work of Felipe Machado and Benítez de Lugo, for the visit to this Villa of King Alfonso XIII.
The fourth and fifth were made in 1910 and 1915 both for the visit of the Infanta Isabel and for that of the explorers from the Canary Islands. These top five were made before the first one dedicated to Corpus Christi, made by Felipe Machado in 1919. In October 1928, the sixth special carpet was made by the visit of Primo de Rivera, and in December 1933 the seventh to be filmed by the Fox Films Corporation for its American newsreels.
Thus, the tapestry of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de La Orotava has been made since the beginning of the 20th century, the first carpet being the one made in 1905 with reason for the visit of a squad of the Spanish Navy to the Villa.

ROMERÍA OF SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR

From the second half of the 17th century, La Orotava has been celebrating the San Isidro festivity. On Sunday, 21st June, 1936, it was celebrated in our Villa the first Romeria in honour to San Isidro Labrador as we know it, promoted by the Liceo de Taoro Cultural Society. From that year, the Romería grew every edition, until it became the great Canaria Party which it is nowadays, an example of organisation for other Romerías celebrated in the Archipelago, sung as “the most beautiful Party in Canarias”.
Nowadays, the Romería of San Isidro symbolically represents the offering of fruits and lands to Patron Saints, and the traditionalism of the Canaria farmland in its various facets, with bedecked carts and parrandas, intoning popular and folkloric songs which make this pilgrimage the most authentic one in the Canary Islands.

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Boceto del tapiz de La Orotava 2023
Boceto del tapiz de La Orotava 2023