Wednesday - Gypsy Procession
Thursday - Silent Procession
Saturday - Climax
Contact the local Granada tourist offices for routes and times:
Corral de Carbon
Tel: +34 958 22 59 90
Plaza Mariana de Pineda 10 bajo
Tel: +34 958 22 66 8
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| The biggest celebrations of the year fall in April. Particularly during Semana Santa or Holy Week. This is a visual feast - the greatest of those outbursts of emotion, culture, religious feeling and sheer spectacle which punctuate the Spanish calendar. During this week - Easter Week - all of the major statues depicting the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary are removed from the churches and carried on their heavy and ornate silver and golden palanques, smothered with flowers and incense, through the streets. This is a spectacle in itself as it can take twenty or thirty men to bear the immense weight of just one of these massive teetering edifices. Every town and village has it processions (including Albunuelas) but the celebrations in Granada are considered some of the finest. Good days to see the processions in Granada are - Wednesday - Gypsy Procession Thursday - Silent Procession Saturday - Climax Contact the local Granada tourist offices for routes and times: Corral de Carbon Tel: +34 958 22 59 90 Plaza Mariana de Pineda 10 bajo Tel: +34 958 22 66 8 |
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| Nazarenos - cowled members of the local 'cofradia' (religious brotherhood) accompany the statures, often by candlelight. | ||||||||||||
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