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From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, <i>Semana Santa</i> is the most important festival on El Salvador's calendar. Catholic church services and solemn street processions parading elaborate gold statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary commemorate Holy Week throughout the country.
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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, <i>La Fiesta de las flores y palmas de Panchimalco</i>.
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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.
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El Salvador celebrates a multitude of saint's days every year, but <i>El Salvador del Mundo</i> - a nationwide week-long festival in celebration of the nation's patron saint - is the most important.
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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.
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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.
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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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