PARTIES, ESSENTIAL

Passion and mystery

Holy Week in Seville is both a demonstration of religiosity and a artistic and ethnographic spectacle in which the greatest achievements of sculpture and crafts of our city are collected.

When works of art take to the streets

This event brings out both spiritual and cultural emotions as well as admiration of works of art. The steps show carvings made by formidable sculptors, from the Baroque period to the present day.

The scenes that you can contemplate in the streets of Seville will seem immutable in time. That is one of the things that most often attract the attention of all people who discover the Holy Week: the feeling of traveling through the centuries.

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Brotherhoods of Seville Seville's Holy Week in detail

The procession is carried through "the center".

The retinue that accompanies these images is mainly made up of the nazarenos, whose faces are covered as a sign of penitence. These processions pass through the center of the city, from its church to the Cathedral, completing the so-called «official race», and providing until late at night fabulous moments full of details. The largest old town in Spain is these days a continuous coming and going of brotherhoods.

A city devoted to mysticism

There are processions of silence and others in which fervor is expressed in the most passionate way. For example, the solemn experience you will get watching the Gran Poder pass by is very different from the overflowing emotion that La Macarena will give you.
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The streets of Seville come alive like never before. Strolls intoxicated by the smells of orange blossom and incense wafting in the air.
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The city is decorated like at no other time of the year to receive the passing of the brotherhoods, and also to receive thousands of visitors.
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The Holy Week of Seville is, in summary, a phenomenon that is born in very remote times and that for different reasons has remained extraordinarily faithful until the present time. It is an impressive experience, always surprising and that moves feelings inside you, religious or not. You cannot miss it.

To keep in mind

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The costaleros are the groups of volunteers, brothers and sisters of the brotherhood, who carry the floats.

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Saetas are exciting flamenco songs that are dedicated to the images from the balconies.

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Seville’s Holy Week has been declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest.

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