PROCESIÓN DE LA VIRGEN DEL CARMEN

The Feast of the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of sailors, is celebrated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on July 16. The image of the Virgin leaves in process from the Mother Church Ntra Sra de la Concepci n and is embarked in the port of Santa Cruz in the afternoon, at approximately 8 hours, and in process Tima sea travels through the bay of the port Accompanied by mere boats adorned, which throw fireworks.

The festivities are a means of dramatizing social cohesion, the identity of a town, a city or an island and many Canarian parties have a close relationship with the sea, although fishing has always been a less economic sector important that agriculture, the Canary Islands as a crossroads area and attractive place for pirates have several villages that celebrate their party at sea. And since approximately the 18th century the cult of the Virgen del Carmen has spread to almost all the fishing communities of the islands.

In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Fiesta del Carmen is characterized by being a roman by the sea, in which the bay of the port is crossed in naval process and in its origins they represented a symbolic ritual u201 so that there would be abundant fishing '