A festival celebrating the Sombrero Pinta’o

The Painted Penonomé, province of Coclé, is ready to receive hundreds of people who will gather for the 11th edition of the Pinta’o National Hat Festival.

The festivities will take placel October 20 to 22and closes with a parade in which more than 30 cars will participate.

On the first day, the coronation of the queen of the 2023 festival will take place. Paola Milagros Jaramillo Vergara.

In addition, it will open a trade route, explained the mayor of La Pintada at a press conference, Edgar D’Angelo.

For Saturday On the 21st, there will be a thanksgiving mass, Crizneja Engirado competition in the adult and youth category.

Academic symposium of “Pinta’o hat” as a world heritage of humanity.

For the craftsman, it is of the utmost importance to learn to know and recognize how to protect it inheritance, said Emy Figueroa, Regional Director of the Coclé Ministry of Culture.

Figueroa He added that this festival is also supported by the economic part, as required by law.

To close the festival, from At 10:00 a.m. there will be a car parade “From Pintao hat artisans to the world.”

For her part, the queen festival He again invited the entire public to visit the event and learn more about this traditional event.