Already one of Umbria’s most beautiful towns, Spello celebrates the Feast of Corpus Domini each year by laying extravagant floral carpets (infiorate) over the streets. Floral artists, young and old, create larger than life depictions of religious themes, or recreations of sacred art using only the petals of flowers. The townspeople labor all night on the eve of the Infiorate to map out their designs and apply the petals, most finishing between 7:00am and 10:00am on Sunday. In these early morning hours, people come to admire the floral masterpieces before the bishop of Spello carries the host on a procession through the streets at 11:00am. As the church leaders work their way through the streets of the town, only the bishop actually walks on the carpets of artfully laid petals.
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| Infiorata di Spello |
Multi-year slide show of the Infiorata
