The Amparo is the cradle of another tradition icodense, the pilgrimage of the Poleo that is the celebration in which it goes up to the mountain to pick up the poleo to adorn the festival of the virgin, once again accompanied by the traditional Orchestra of Poleo to the compass of the tajaraste . This poleo is brought to decorate the portico of the Church of Our Lady of El Amparo, decorating the central part with the so-called bun that is a huge cake covered by the so-called “alffeñiques” which are also figurines of sugar. In the corners are placed the madamas that are great dolls of bread. All this accompanied by colored ribbons, baskets of fruits, palm and the already famous poleo.

Songs, dancing, good wine and something to eat; People who carry the offerings of branches of poleo, that dance, dance and pray, in that mixture of tradition and modernity, of faith and custom. Emotions spring up without you looking for them around the climb to the branch, in the chords of the ancestral tajaraste, in the encounters with the pilgrims, in that crowd that leaves from the Plaza de la Pila to climb the Amparo. Mute witness that sober church, the temple of the miraculous virgin, dated at the end of the XVI century, of particular structure and in which the “orange half” stands out.

All a ceremonial that repeats year after year and that it is necessary to live it to be able to count it, since the Virgin of the Amparo is Mayoral Honorary and Perpetual of Icod de los Vinos from 27 of June of 2000.

To highlight the tajaraste played by the El Poleo orchestra, accompanied by the pito or the flute, nowadays almost replaced by the accordion, the castanets, and the drum where the songs of relationships danced in two pairs are collected, hence the name Dance to four.