Travel Guide La Palma

This city, founded in 1815, is located approximately 8 kilometres from the border with Honduras. The armed conflict of the 1980 s left painful memories. At 1 000 metres above sea level, La Palma enjoys a fresh and airy climate. It produces ceramics and crafts in wood; it is also one of the country's most artisanales regions. There is no shortage of workshops, following the example of the Salvadoran painter Fernando Llort, who promoted the naïf art in the country (Maison de la culture de La Palma).The employer festival at Dulce Number of María is celebrated from February 10 to 18. The legend of the Siguanaba ("the woman crying" in pipil, the Mayan ethnic ethnie who inhabited the region during the Spanish conquest) said that it appeared in the gorges to frighten those who risked at night (attention if you were fighting!). In Las Pilas, we mention the Partideño, a kind of Robin Hood who would have lived in the late th century and who would have hidden his treasure in a cave. We would almost like to believe it!