I am in Spello for the Infiorata, a celebration held every year on Corpus Domini, the 9th Sunday after Easter. Around 1,000 people gather on the Saturday evening before to create carpets made of flower petals on the narrow streets of this gorgeous town in Umbria.
Spello is full of flowers anyway. Take a look at some of the lovely gardens.
This afternoon tents were erected to protect the areas to be covered with flower petals.
Thousands of flowers were pulled apart and separated into colours.
The designs are laid out on the streets. Some are very complicated.
Some are much more simple.
At about 7.00pm work begins on the designs.
Food is cooked in the streets to feed the hungry workers.
At midnight the streets were still full with people creating art and people watching them.
…and the whole town smells like flowers.
In the morning there will be a procession led by the bishop through the streets, trampling all the beautiful flower carpets.
I will be up bright an early to see the creations before they disappear.