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Viernes Santo El Silencio (Good Friday Procession)
Viernes Santo (April 3) eclipses in El Silencio’s wordless requiem, 1,500 ebony-robed nazarenos ferrying crucifixion pasos through alleys sans capillas—only footfalls, bell peals, and stifled sobs mark the 8-hour madrugá. […]
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Jueves Santo Oración en el Huerto (Maundy Thursday Procession)
Jueves Santo (April 2) descends into Gethsemane’s shadow with Oración en el Huerto processions, where violet-robed nazarenos bear thorn-crowned pasos wreathed in olives and silver lanterns along the Guadalquivir’s banks—costaleros […]
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Miércoles Santo Madrugá (Holy Wednesday Vigil)
Miércoles Santo’s madrugá (March 31–April 1) is Semana Santa’s throbbing heart, led by the Gran Poder brotherhood’s 3,000 nazarenos in ivory tunics escorting Juan de Mesa’s brooding Christ (1697) and […]
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Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday Procession)
Semana Santa dawns on March 29 with the Hermandad de la Borriquita’s procession, evoking Christ’s Jerusalem triumph as 2,000 nazarenos in purple velvet wave olive fronds from the Cathedral’s Giralda […]
