Next Sunday, the 5th of July, the Locality of Gharb will be celebrating the feast of the Visitation of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth.
The Gharb Local Council, in collaboration with the Gharb Feast Committee, will once again be organising the Infiorata cultural event.
‘Infiorata’ is an initiative introduced by the Local Council and which has been held on a yearly basis since 2003.
The ‘Inforata’ is laid on the church parvis and consists of a carpet made of fresh flowers petals and leaves cut in small pieces and arranged together to form various thematic designs.
The ‘Infiorata’ is an old Italian tradition, the oldest one originating in ‘Gerano’ the twinned village of Gharb which is found in the outskirts of Rome Italy. This tradition in Gerano dates back to around the 17th Century.
The team in Gharb start on the design weeks before the feast and on Sunday, the Feast day, a group of local volunteers made up of young children and adults gather together on the church parvis at around 2pm to start works on the laying of flowers.
The procession of the Visitation, which takes place at about 7.30pm, will pass over the Infiorata – Carpet of flowers.
The Council would like to extend it’s best wishes for the feast and would also like to invite everyone to join in the celebrations.
Photograph shows the preparations for Infiorata 2014