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Las Tablas, Panama Revels in its Festival de la Pollera
Cascading ruffles like an explosion of jungle flowers: Las Tablas' Festival de la Pollera celebration showcases Panama culture through traditional dress.
It is said that when certain plants are brought to non-native lands, their fruits subtly adopt new characteristics from the difference in the soil. In the case of the pollera (pronounced poy-AIR-ah), the national dress of Panama, this has also been the case. Flowing with ornate flower-print ruffles and crowned with baroque combs and hairpins, echoes of 16th- and 17th-century Spain appear to live on in modern Panama.The Panamanian pollera and accompanying hairstyle do have several elements in common with the dresses of Cordoba, Valencia, and Salamanca, but after several hundred years in the culture of Panama, the pollera has become something symbolically Panamanian.*******At this very moment, Panamanians are dancing, drinking, and full-on reveling in a celebration of these gorgeous...MORE
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