Proposals for Holy Week

Easter is a celebration very much in the Spanish culture, which is celebrated in different ways depending on each region and area of ​​geography.

Thus, some traditions are known for their active religious connotation, and others to be more secular, by classifying them in some way. In southern Spain, for example, in Andalusia, the processions of saints, Madonnas and Christs are the highlights of the celebrations of Easter.

The monumental city of Seville during the holidays is a good example, with more than 50 guilds who have a full agenda of processions to the thousands of visitors and locals who come to watch them on their journey through the Official.

In addition, the celebrations also vary depending on the day of the Easter season. On Ash Wednesday, for example, the traditional doll "O Momo" through the streets of Villanueva de Arosa in Pontevedra and is burned at the stake with various parades and masked characters known under the name "Choqueiros".

In Hellin, Castile-La Mancha, we celebrate the "drum performance," the ultimate party drum. Declared of National Tourist Interest party recently, this celebration has great fame both in domestic and international circles.

Castellón leverages the Easter season to celebrate the festival of La Magdalena in Castellon, beginning the third Saturday of Lent. They serve to commemorate the founding of the city for over seven centuries.

The people of Lloret de Mar, Girona, combine the rhythm of the Sardana with the "Snail Perdons dels" (to ask forgiveness for the excesses committed during the Carnival), moving to the hermitage of Santa Cristina on the second Sunday of Lent.

Coinciding with Palm Sunday, the Catalans take their godchildren sponsors and palm branches, to give them good luck. On Easter Monday provided "the monkey", a dessert of Arabic origin: it is a cake with lots of details pastry stuck to its surface and with an egg and chocolate figures.

This dessert is also typical of other parts of Spain, Asturias, where the practice involves a gift from the sponsors, "the bollu" a thread of puff pastry filled with almonds and garnished with egg yolk.

Another example of different activity is the Holy Week of Malaga, whose tradition leads to free a prisoner and receives a blessing in Jesus' name.

The celebrations are mainly basin with the famous musical concerts of the Religious Music Week carried out historic buildings as the Cathedral.

In short, there are many ways to take advantage of the Easter and Lent to enjoy time with family and closest friends and celebrate religiously or not, the passion of Christ or the holidays.