The processions take place during the week leading up to but not including Easter Sunday. Always hidden away in Seville, but you might catch a glimpse when they pop out for a well earned drink. Without doubt the local heroes of the night are the lads who carry the thrones. Grandstands are erected in the main squares, you may be able to buy a back row seat as the best sell out weeks in advance. This is a good area to watch the processions. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday people in Spain celebrate something called Semana Santa, a holy week filled with celebrations that are a mix of Catholic. The final lap of the official route goes from La Campana to Calle Sierpes to the cathedral and around the Giralda and the Bishop's Palace. Especially well-known for their elaborate or unusual ceremonies the week preceding Easter. Throughout the country there are solemn but colorful parades, Mass, and often fireworks. Semana santa is, along with the Christmas season, the most important Catholic holiday in Mexico. On the Thursday, the local women wear black and it's considered disrespectful for tourists to wear T-shirts and shorts. En 2021, Semana Santa se inicia el 28 de marzo con el Domingo de Ramos y finaliza - una semana después- con Pascua. Semana Santa 2021 - Easter Week - 2021 - March 28 to April 3rd, 2021. The highlight is the arrival at the cathedral in the early hours of the morning. Good Friday morning is the climax, when the procession leave the churches at midnight and move through the town for most of the night. Throughout the week, the processions leave churches all over the city from early afternoon onwards, snaking through the city and back to their resting place many hours later.
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