Wednesday, June 21, 2006
June 22: Día de las Alfombras
Tomorrow, June 22, is the Día de las Alfombras or Day of the Carpets in La Orotava, the picturesque town of stately buildings in north Tenerife.
We've already shown you the work being done by a group of Buddist monks on their part of this year's carpet display. Today, local newspaper site, Diario de Avisos, have a small aerial photo of the practically finished carpet and a larger one of some of the detail of the main carpet here, which you can see.
And yes, that which looks like something Micaelangelo might have painted on a chapel ceiling, is, indeed, temporarily made, just with colored sands.
To get an idea of the scale of the carpet, look to the top of the tiny aerial shot. The plaza - and carpet - runs the width of three very sizable buildings.
Did your jaw drop? Mine did the first time I saw it for real, which begins to explain why this is such a big event here. It is incredible work.
The fact that they were able to take an aerial photo, must mean that the canopy that is placed over the plaza while the work is being carried out, must have been removed already. I do hope it is not raining in La Orotava, as it has been doing here in the west - enough that the dog and I had to wade up the road earlier - and that, weather and all other things permitting, we will be able to go and get some photos of the main carpet, as well as the flower carpets that are yet to be made in the surrounding streets, for ourselves tomorrow on the "big day".
This year's main Corpus Cristi carpet, made by the local alfombristas in La Orotava, is dedicated to the theme of "The Good The Bad" and has been described as one of the most avant-garde in the carpets' history.
LA OROTAVA - FIESTAS DEL CORPUS CHRISTI 2006
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