52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia.

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Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia.

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Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118913

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118927

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118926

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118925

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118924

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118916

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118915

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118914

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118912

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118911

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118910

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118901

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118900

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118896

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118895

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118894

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118893

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118880

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118879

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118878

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118877

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118876

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118875

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118874

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118873

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118867

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118866

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118864

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118858

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118855

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118854

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118853

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118852

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118851

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118850

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118846

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118845

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

ID: 118881

Silleteros (flower-chair carriers) from Santa Elena parade alongside the Medellin River during 52nd Annual Feria de Flores (Flower Festival) Parade in Medellin, Colombia. Ensconced in the Andes Mountains about 45 minutes west of Medellin, Santa Elena is known for its flower-growing climate, while Medellin is known as the City of Eternal Spring because flowers bloom there year-round.

The first parade took place May 1, 1957, and 40 Silleteros participated. Today more than 500 Silleteros showed flower arranged on chair-like structures which they hoist on their backs. The tradition of carrying flowers on chair-like structures hoisted on the backs is inspired by the chairs used by pre-Columbian natives to carry work-loads and people in colonial times. Made of wood, some of the chairs along with flowers can weigh as much as 70 kilos and expand as much as 1.5 meters in diameter.

More than 1500 musicians, dancers, and jugglers too part in the parade.

Three pictures show children collecting flowers thrown out of a helicopter from the asphalt.

This year's parade began around 2:30PM at the Guayaquil Bridge, ran along the Medellin River, and ended at Plaza Mayor, a distance of close to three kilometers.

Tags Colombia, feria de flores, flower festival, Medellin, parade, santa elena, silleteros

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