Feast of the Trays

The Tray Festival is one of the most ancient cultural and religious events in Portugal. It is a very colorful festival, thanks to the beautiful paper-flowers decorations in the streets of Tomar and the flowers tabuleiro tray the girls carry on their heads.

They spend hundreds of hours making an endless number of paper flowers to decorate their streets. The residents of each street are coming up with an idea or a theme or color, and they work together on creating the decorations for the festival. They were all motivated to have their street the best. They were all motivated to have their street the best.