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20 Festa dos Tabuleiros Travel Photos

The Festival of the Trays happens in Tomar, Portugal. It is a parade of girls wearing tabuleiros on their heads as shown in the pictures below.

 

There are horses and buggies too.

It is held every four years, the last one was 2019, the next is 2023. It originated from a cult hundreds of years ago.

 

The girls wear long white dresses with bright red or yellow sash. The boys wear a formal costume.

You can the details of the paper flowers and bread on the tray.

 

 

 

Women carrying heavy flower decorated trays for the traditional Trays Festival around the historic town of Tomar, Portugal, Europe.

 

 

The paper flowers are handmade. They are in all colors, with many white, red, purple, yellow, and green.

 

 

 

Tomar is a small city located in the Central Region of Portugal.

 

 

The women have to balance the headdress using head, and hands.

 

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It looks like fun.

Tomar is a town with 20k people.

The tabuleiro has 30 stacked pieces of bread, 6 rows of 5 or 5 rows of 6, decorated with tons of gorgeous flowers.