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Fiestas Patronales de Suchitoto in Suchitoto
Suchitoto, the colonial lakeside town in Cuscatlan department, honors its patron Santa Lucia with an eight-day feast running December 6 through 13. The celebration centers on the town's whitewashed colonial church, with daily cultural programming, masked enmascarado figures, and decorated carrozas, set against a town otherwise known for its indigo heritage and cobblestone streets.
Suchitoto's fiestas patronales unfold across eight days each December, from the sixth through the thirteenth, in honor of Santa Lucia, the early Christian martyr venerated across the Catholic world as patron of eyesight and, by extension, of light and vision.