Poland to celebrate Feast of Corpus Christi adorned with flowers

The highlight of the celebrations is the procession. In front of a priest, carrying a monstrance, little girls, dressed in white throw flower petals along the whole procession route.

This colourful procession stops by four altars adorned with flowers, which are set in places that are important for a given community - by crosses or shrines.

On this day, it is worth going to Spycimierz, a small village in Central Poland. For two hundred years now, its inhabitants have been celebrating Corpus Christi by way of arranging a flower carpet of religious subject-matter along the procession route. This meticulous composition is two kilometres long and two metres wide.

In numerous parts of Poland, the Corpus Christi procession is also an opportunity to present regional costumes.

In Pniewo (north-east Poland), you can see costumes from the Kurpie region, and in Łowicz, which is situated near Warsaw, your attention will be attracted by colourful stripes, which are an element of the Łowicz region costumes.

In Poznań, in turn, the procession is adorned by "Bamberki" - female descendants of German settlers brought to the Greater Poland region in the eighteenth century. Their traditional costumes are topped with cornets, which are headdress decorated with flowers.