Celebrate the coffee
It taste like coffee, it looks like coffee, and it is all about coffee, this delicious bean that wakes up all the world as one every single day, it has become a part of our lives, as a tradition , as something incredible that we couldn’t live without, really sounds like passion. Specially in Latin countries the smell of coffee is everywhere, with different tastes and flavours, but one word, Coffee. This is the end of the coffee season, so Puerto Ricians celebrate it with with music, vibrant parades, arts and crafts stalls and plenty of coffee desserts.During February is all about the coffee bean, actually Puerto Rican coffee formed part of every White House breakfast. All the Maricao’s plantation owners threw for their workers in the town’s coffee heyday, after a hard work under the sun, the workers deserve more than ever a nice days off, with celebration and total relax, Puerto Rico’s velvety medium-dark roast was once the toast of Europe’s frilled and powdered royalty, the bean is back on track. It’s a really beautiful experience to take a part in this event, as a tourist it will be a great cultural walk through Maricao.
Maricao has so many reasons to be proud of the delicious coffee, that has earned its fame all around the globe, the coffee has been growing in these mountains since this delicious grain was introduced into Puerto Rico, the great idea to make a festival out of it was born back in 1979, when the then Honorable Vincent Bayron Velez, met with a group of citizens of this town in the district. He proposed to throw a big party that lasted 3 days, all to commemorate the completion of the coffee harvest. It was all to than the Lord for the good harvest and the pickers, tahnking that the coffee wasn’t lost.
