The Sacred Heart

It's El Paso's main fiesta, The Sacred Heart (El Corazon Sagrado). Like Mazo and San José, they make archways and carpets, but they're slightly different.

In San José, they dye the salt, and then put the colours together to make the picture. In El Paso, they start by putting down white salt --kilos and kilos of it from the salt pans in the southern tip of the island.



They carefully put a stencil on top, and spray on the various colours until the design's complete.



In this case, they added a table on top with a statue of the Virgin, and then this man started retouching.



There will be a procession this evening after the special mass at 7 pm.

More photos tomorrow.

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The Virgin of Fatima in La Punta

Mass for the Virgin of Fatima, La Punta

Last night I went to the fiesta for The Virgin of Fatima in La Punta, in the municipality of Tijarafe. Things didn't go according to plan (see my personal blog, but I had a good time.


Procession

La Punta is just a hamlet. Like most small villages, the main annual fiesta is the saint's day of the village's patron saint. Practically all such fiestas include a special mass and a procession with the statue of the saint, and so did this one.


Living Picture

Most fiestas include something else, which varies from village to village. Tijarafe town all told me that there wasn't anything else at La Punta, but they had a living picture, which someone gave a short speech in honour of the Virgin.


Fireworks

And then we had fireworks. Rather good ones in my opinion, considering the size of the place.


The Dance Floor

And the dance was just getting started as I left. I had to get up this morning. Since they have today off work they probably partied until 2 am at least.

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