The Festa da Santa Cruz – Andores Floridos de Alvarães is one of the most poetic manifestations of faith, culture and popular art in Viana do Castelo, integrating the Viennese cycle of the flower, a true flash of colour and aroma of wild flowers.

The embroidery of this popular art moves the people of Alvarães to make eleven admirable floats covered with flower petals, glued one by one, and 14 crosses also embroidered, giving a glimpse of colour in the centre of the town.

It is difficult to describe the polychromy of the colours, the ingenuity and art of the flowery floats, the majestic procession and the contagious magic of the festival, making this festival the mirror of the people of Alvarães, infecting the thousands of visitors who magnify the ego of the town.