Send Flowers to El Viejo, Nicaragua

El Viejo, a few minutes from Chinandega, guards one of Nicaragua's most venerated images: the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception of El Viejo, kept in the town's basilica. Each 6 December pilgrims gather for the Lavada de la Plata, the ritual washing of the silver objects offered to the Virgin over the centuries, on the eve of the nationwide Purísima celebrations.

Around that devotion lives an agricultural town surrounded by sugar cane, peanut and banana fields, on the road to the Cosigüina peninsula. Flowers are part of everyday faith here, on home altars and in church, as well as gifts for mothers, wives and newborns. When you send flowers to El Viejo, a florist from the Chinandega area delivers them by hand: the same day from Monday to Saturday for orders before 11:00 am local time, the next day for later orders, and never on Sunday. The heat is intense, so flowers should go into water straight away.

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