Yaiza celebrated Corpus Christi this Sunday with a mass in the church of Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios. The believers went in procession through the town square, stepping on the eleven salt carpets made on Saturday by groups and residents of the municipality.
Children, young people and adults joined the six groups that had initially confirmed their participation in the day of collective creation of the carpets. The Entre Amigos de Yaiza theater group, the Rancho de Pascua, the Rubicón Folk Group, the Los Salineros de la Hoya band, the municipality's senior citizens group and a group of families with children who play soccer in the Unión Sur Yaiza, plus the neighbors who decided to go on Saturday, turned the Yaiza square into a great center of ingenuity and fellowship.
The creators, with the support of City Council staff, worked throughout the afternoon and part of the night dyeing the salt and shaping colorful rugs, in which religious motifs, drawings alluding to traditions and Canarian folklore and also to nature predominated. Yaiza resumed the tradition of making salt carpets on the occasion of Corpus Christi in 2012.
Children from the municipality, who this year made their first communion, led the parade through the square together with the parish priest Sixto Álvarez.