36 Days Of Type - 5

Venezuela from A to Z 🌷 The orchid was declared the national flower of Venezuela in 1951. It is also known as Flower of May because in the nineteenth century people used it to decorate the "Cross of May", a religious celebration to propitiate good harvests (on the begining of rains) and as a way to ask the Virgin for her protecto for the rest of the year.

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