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How To: Guatemalan Street Carpets

]]> In Guatemala, Semana Santa, the week before Easter, is filled with parades, ceremonies, and many traditional rituals. One of the most beautiful is the creation of alfombras. These are street carpets made with flower petals, pine needles, and dyed sawdust. They cover a path for many blocks.

Recreate the fabulous and spiritual carpets created for Holy Week Processions at Crayola.

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How To: Guatemalan Street Carpets

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Guatemala Holy Carpets

]]> Guatemalan artists design amazing alfombras, the Arabic word for carpet, made of pine needles, flowers, flower petals, sand, and saw dust on the processional routes. They create them as offerings.

Head to this site to see the gorgeous carpets designed on cobblestone.

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Guatemala Holy Carpets

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Semana Santa

]]> This event in Antigua, Guatemala may just be one for your Bucket List…Antigua is famous for its Catholic celebration of Holy Week that commemorates the Passion, the Crucifiction, and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ because the entire city (and thousands of travelers) participate in the events.

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Semanta Santa, as it is known, takes place between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. There is a huge event on Palm Sunday wherein images of Jesus and the Holy Virgin of Sorrow are carried from their churches through the city on the shoulders of citizens who also carry lanterns while dressed in purple robes with white waistbands.

Similar processions continue all week with special celebrations on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.

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Semana Santa

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