A scene of colorful flowers and plants from Italy and Holland will beautify St. Peter’s Square and the Vatican Basilica this year on the occasion of Holy Week 2024. The Governorate of Vatican City State reports on the provisions and, in a press release, emphasizes that “during the Easter Vigil floral decorations will be created thanks also to the contribution of florists professors at the Naklo Biotechnology Center in Slovenia” and that, “in the light and joy of the Risen Christ, the solemnity After Easter, on Sunday, March 31, St. Peter’s Square will be an immense multicolored garden, with thousands of flowers and plants from Holland. The decorations will be made thanks to the generous contribution of Dutch florists, with the collaboration of the workers of the Gardens and Environment Service of the Directorate of Infrastructures and Services of the Governorate of the State of Vatican City”.
Floral decorations for Palm Sunday and Holy Week
The statement specifies that, on the occasion of Palm Sunday, March 24, “olive twigs provided by the National Association of Oil Cities of the Sardinia Region will be distributed”, coordinated by Antonio Balenzano, national director of the Association, while the supply of “The Phoenix Palms”, donated by the Neocatechumenal path, will come from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff and that “the famous woven palmurelli will also be present, supplied by the individual company Errico Grazia of San Remo.” The wholesale horticultural company Flora NL of Rome will lend the “large olive trees that will be placed near the statues of Saints Peter and Paul, at the foot of the atrium and the obelisk.” The floral decoration of St. Peter’s Square will be carried out entirely by the workers of the Gardens and Environment Service of the Directorate of Infrastructure and Services of the Governorate of Vatican City State.
