page_title: Anjo Festival
section_title: The ivy as a love symbol
hierarchical_section_title: Anjo Festival / Celebrations / The ivy as a love symbol
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Gefotografeerd op 27 juni 2005, 20.57 uurEnglish: Photographed on 27 June 2005, 20.57
context_page_description: Anjo Festival or Ivy Festival is an Easter Monday festival held in coastal Northern Portugal. Originating in Póvoa de Varzim, it is currently observed in several towns, especially Vila do Conde and Esposende.
  The festival consists of a family picnic in the surrounding countryside or woodlands, known in the local dialect as Bouças.
context_section_description: The Anjo Festival was also a lovers' day. Students and other single young men waited for this day with great anxiety as it was the only day that their parents gave them complete freedom during all day and night. During the picnic people sang and danced.
  Girls, in the 1920s, in order to finance a local brass band used the traditional walk to the Anjo and placed themselves in the entrance of the woodlands where families had their picnic, selling ivy leaves to couples and singing ivy poems which led the couples to buy them, young men would put the ivy in their hats or pockets and girls would place them in their chests.
  Ivy poems:
  The one who walked away from the ivy
  and did not pick a leaf,
  will not remember one's love.
  I wish I was an ivy
  to climb the wall
  and look through the window
  of your bedroom.
caption: the Ivy, Hedera helix.
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