Guatemala S Easter Sawdust Carpets

The final processions take place on easter sunday.

Guatemala s easter sawdust carpets.

Tapetes de aserrín are one or more layers of colored sawdust and sometimes other additional materials laid on the ground as decoration sawdust carpets are traditionally created to greet a religious procession that walks over them. Every year during holy week amazing carpets composed of flowers vegetables fruits and dyed sawdust adorn the streets of antigua guatemala a lovely colonial city home to latin america s most famous easter celebration. The tradition of decorating streets in this fashion began in europe and was brought to the americas by the spanish. Later a solemn procession of roman centurions march over the carpets carrying an image of christ on the cross.

This year the country has a new reason to celebrate it has been recognized by guinness world records for producing the longest sawdust carpet in the world. That day la merced church takes a procession out that goes through the streets of the colonial city with sawdust carpets adorning its passage. Daily mail be sure to look at the gorgeous photos what other ephemeral. Sawdust carpets in guatemala s easter celebrations the world and i 10 4 april 1995.

Holy week in antigua guatemala begins on palm sunday with a mass in catholic churches. The anatomy of a sawdust carpet. The bearers wear white symbolizing joy. Further reading evans larry l.

Time lapse of a beautiful sawdust carpet being made and then trampled over by a catholic procession. Firecrackers explode as the celebrations draw to a close. Lord priscilla sawyer and daniel j. Bella guatemala travel antigua is a small city of 35 000 people defined by cobblestoned.

Arts colorful sawdust carpets coat the streets of guatemala s cities during their iconic easter holy week processions. This is a tradition in antigua guatemala for easter week. Antigua s easter tradition of laying intricate carpets made of vibrant flowers and other objects to decorate the city during semana santa bring a whole new level of beauty to guatemala s former. To soften the path.

Guatemala s semana santa the easter festival in the former colonial capital are beyond comparison to anything in the northern hemisphere along cobblestone streets intricate carpets of colored sawdust are painstakingly laid down.