If you have a thing for pavaljuni – the baroque banners that dress the Maltese streets for a village feast – then head to Paola tomorrow to witness the largest one of them all being unfurled.

A 16.5 metre pavaljun decorated in red and yellow – the traditional colours of Christ the King, Paola’s patron saint – has toppled Qormi’s 13 metre-wide pavaljun from the records list.

It was commissioned by one of the Paola band clubs, the Għaqda Soċjali Mużikali Kristu Sultan, with the aim of leaving a mark on the town’s feast.

“Every year we try to do something different. This year we opted for this,” president Adrian Mizzi said.

The baroque banner had five people working on it for four months. Darrin Darmanin, 22, worked on the shading and blending of the cloth colours to give the banner a 3D effect.

Jesmond Fenech, 32, sewed the 150 metres of cloth. However, for the pavaljun to withstand the elements, it also had to have wood and fibreglass attached. Funds for this project, which ran into “thousands”, were collected by the 175 band club members.

It will be unveiled tomorrow night during the band march in honour of Grandmaster de Paule, who built the town of Paola.

“We will set it up the night before, as it will take hours to put it up, but we will unfurl it at 10pm and it will stay up till Sunday,” Mr Mizzi said.

The pavaljun will be hung in Valletta Road, which has previously always been deemed too wide for feast banners.

“It will hang from the Hibernians football club, right across to the prison wall,” Mr Mizzi said.