Medellín: This will be the Silleteros Parade of 2022 - Medellín - Colombia

Although the pandemic did not prevent the Medellin Flower Fair in the last two years, it did change the way some events were held.

This is the case of the Silleteros Parade, the flagship event of the fair, which in 2020 was held in an improvised parking lot in Santa Elena and a year later it took place inside the Atanasio Girardot stadium.

However, after two complex years, flower artisans will once again parade through the streets of Medellín.

This was confirmed by the municipal Administration, which revealed that The main festival of the Antioquians will be held from August 8 to 15.

The Silleteros Parade, as has been traditional, will be the event in charge of closing the Flower Fair.

“More than 420 silleteros are going to take to the streets this year to show us in a silleta, that canvas of flowers, how beautiful it is to be a peasant. From cultivating, caring for flowers and of course from the creativity of putting it in a chair and showing the world what is grown and sold here”, said the Secretary of Government and Mayor (e), Esteban Restrepo.

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We will have the silleteritos parade, the silletera week and a whole cultural agenda prepared to show

For his part, Federico Alzate Zapata, President of the Santa Elena Silleteros Corporation (Cosse), stressed that this event is the most important of the year for them and that the preparation begins from March with the cultivation of flowers.

“We are going to return on August 15, we are preparing to grow flowers, to reactivate tourism and to strengthen the special safeguard plan that is so important for our culture. We will have the silleteritos parade, the silletera week and a whole cultural agenda prepared to show”, said Alzate.

About the place where the parade will take place, the mayor’s office has not yet specified what it will be.

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Restrepo pointed out that the 2022 version of the Fair will maintain events from the last two years, but will add others to the 25 public and private events that the event will have.

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Silleteros from Medellín will travel to Expo Dubai 2022 - Medellín - Colombia

Expo Dubai 2022an event that will be held until March 31 and that brings together more than 200 exhibitors from countries, companies and international organizations, will feature the silletera culture of Medellin.

This was reported by the municipal mayor’s office, which indicated that “this will become the most important participation of the silleteros of Santa Elena in world-class events.”

Between February 7 and 11, Luis Mauricio Atehortuawinner in the Artistic category of the 64th edition of the Silleteros Parade and Federico Alzate Zapatarepresentative of the Silleteros Corporation, will fulfill an agenda that aims to promote the cultural heritage of Colombia through the beauty of flowers.

“For me, it is a great pride and joy to go to other countries to transmit our beautiful silletero culture, as the third generation of silleteros. I carry a chair with the motto ‘Made In Medellin’, it has two hands with their flags, that of Colombia and that of the United Arab Emirates. I want to thank my family for transmitting this great silletera culture to me,” said Luis Mauricio Atehortúa.

According to the mayor’s office, the agenda includes meetings at the Dubai Future Foundation, a planning entity that consolidates alliances with innovation ecosystems; tours at Expo Center Sharjah, one of the most important exhibition centers in Dubai; in addition to tours to the pavilions of Colombia, Germany, among other activities, in order to generate new alliances and publicize the tourist offer of the country and the capital of Antioquia.

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“We feel completely proud to belong to the delegation that will represent the city in Dubai; we are going to represent it with two beautiful chairs. It is a step that for our tradition is a very high step and it is very important because it is to show our culture, our tradition, our customs to the whole world”, said Federico Álzate Zapata, representative and director of the Silleteros Corporation (COSSE).

The municipal administration highlighted that the silletas also had their moment to shine due to their appearance in the most recent film by Disney ‘Charm’since in this project four silleteros from Santa Elena were part of the launch events in cities such as Milan, Barcelona and Bogotá.

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