the mayor of La Orotava, Francisco Linares (CC)announces that next June the traditional festivities of La Orotava will be held normally again in honor of the Corpus Christi, San Isidro Labrador and Santa María de la Cabeza, after the Government of the Canary Islands lifted all restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be flower carpets in the streets, dance of magicians, rise of the saints and pilgrimage. Celebrations that have not been celebrated in the streets of Villeras since 2019.
Linares points out that starting next week the local institution and the Mixed Commission of the Patron Saint Festivities They will start working on a new program to organize the parties “as normally as possible”. To date, the Department of Fiestas and the aforementioned commission have worked on a more austere program of events, since with the restrictions existing to date mass events could not take place. Now the most traditional and expected acts by the villeros will be recovered, such as the carpets of the Infraoctave of Corpus Christi in the streets, on June 23; the magician’s ball, on the 24th; the rise of the saints, on Saturday 25, and the traditional pilgrimage of San Isidro Labrador and Santa María de la Cabeza, on Sunday June 26.
The Villero Consistory announces that “in the coming weeks it will be possible to expand the information on the events to be held and the characteristics of each one of them.”
