Holy Week in SEVILLE is popularly known as SEMANA SANTA , Easter in Spain.In this video is an ultimate guide to Semana Santa in Seville that is a longest time doing GREAT processions.
To know the most important information about this fascinating tradition and what makes Semana Santa in Seville so special.
This Amazing dazzling celebration of Semana Santa in Seville Spain. As a catholic country, Spain celebrates Semana Santa every year as a sign of their belief in God. Over five hundreds years doing processions.
The holy week in Spain is the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities that perform penance processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city and town especially the Andalusia region during the last week of Lent, the week inmediately before Easter. From palm sunday up to Easter Sunday.
Here in sevilla España holy week is popularly known as Semana Santa. It is one of the most iconic biggest festival in the capital city of Andalusia.
The sequence or order of the parade usually first is a big cross to open the way of the procession that fallowed by the first brotherhoods musical band, a group of participants bearing lanterns fallowing the first group of nazarenos that consist of minimum six hundred up to 3000 members that can be kids, new and old members of the Brotherhoods.
The next is the float or thrones of Jesus christ. The float weighs up to five thousand kilograms that it depends on every church floats and more the brotherhoods members or volunteers Cary it for up to twelve hours from the respected churches going to the Cathedral and going back again to its origin church. The floats called in Spanish pasos which are carried on the shoulders of team of costaleros around the streets. 30 to 50 of them but again depends on the brotherhoods. The pasos are decorated wth flowers, candles and other ornaments which usually are more or less similar with other brotherhoods floats. Their patience and pains during the processions parade is a penance for the suffering of christ. Inmidiately next come the floats of the virgin Mary and fallowed by another last band music.
This is the most fantastic time to be in the city to enjoy the celebration in some many different ways. Can walk through the streets of Seville and look for the processions that you choose to see or enjoy it from the balcony of a good view sites or rent a chair for the whole family at the downtown where the floats parade will pass go inside the Seville cathedral.
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