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Holy Week in El Salvador |  San Salvador
Apr 2010 (annual)
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, Semana Santa is the most important festival on El Salvador's calendar. Catholic church services and solemn, busy street processions parading elaborate gold statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary commemorate Holy Week throughout the country. |
Panchimalco Flower & Palm Festival |  San Salvador
May 2010 (annual)
Panchimalco, a small town in the San Salvador city region, honours its two patron saints every year with the spectacularly colourful Flower and Palm Festival, La Fiesta de las flores y palmas de Panchimalco. |
Fiestas Agostinas |  San Salvador
Aug 2010 (annual)
Sports tournaments, art exhibitions, pantomime shows, theatre, food fairs and other fun events pop up across San Salvador in the first week of August during the Fiestas Agostinas. The main parades travel from the capital's university to the National Palace. |
El Salvador del Mundo |  San Salvador
Aug 2010 (annual)
El Salvador celebrates a multitude of saint's days every year, but El Salvador del Mundo - a nationwide week-long festival in celebration of the nation's patron saint - is the most important. |
La Puerta del Diablo |  La Puerta del Diablo
Daily
In 1762 a fierce storm created the stone formation now known as La Puerta del Diablo (Devil's Door). Despite its malevolent name, it provides a sublime panoramic view of a chunk of El Salvador's glorious countryside. |
San Salvador Historic Quarter |  San Salvador
Daily
Four centuries ago the Spanish erected San Salvador's first buildings, the majority of which have since been destroyed by earthquakes. Only the constructions from the end of the 19th century survive, the gems of the capital's historic quarter. |
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site |  Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Daily
The Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site reveals the preserved remains of a pre-hispanic farming community that lay buried under ten layers of volcanic ash for more than 1400 years. |
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