Secret Tenerife: Tenerife Village Fiesta: Day 10

Tenerife Village Fiesta: Day 10

Fiestas Day 10 - Sunday, September 23st (Day of Traditions)

And so we come to the program for the final day and big finale of the fiestas in El Palmar: the Day of Traditions or Country Fair.

From 11:00 at the Finca Los Pedregales in El Palmar. The highlight of the day is La Trilla (Threshing) carried out, as we see, with oxen, horses and lots of audience participation.

The fiesta program says that this is "an obligatory date in the calendar" (I shan't argue), organized by the Neighbours' Association in El Palmar, The Commission of Fiestas and the Town Hall in Buenavista del Norte.

Plenty of animals and farm implements round out this country fair, along with demonstrations of other local traditions such as the Carboneras (smoking heap of earth and foliage) that people in this area used to make charcoal.

There is such thing as a free lunch too; laid on for everyone who attends (expect to queue, mind you) and the day will come to a close with a stupendous dance in the plaza (next to the market building). The Latin Jazz style band from Buenavista they had for this last year was superb.

It's also worth mentioning that the Farmers' Market generally has three times as many stalls as usual, offering the freshest local produce, as well as genuine local crafts. Hint: those make far better souvenirs than the plastic items that you may find in the souvenir shops, as well as that benefitting the local people.

Visit the following page for the start of this series of posts on these Fiestas.

Fiestas El Palmar 2007 Photos