I just noticed you said 21 days … Holy Week is happening from April 13 to 21 this year … Holy Week is basicaly everything surrounding Easter (the Spanish celebrate it for a week before actual Easter Sunday) … Seville will have huge events starting on the Monday 13th and last all week until Sunday 20th
Seville has big events but Malaga has the biggest most spectacular gatherings that will last all week … the city has a population of about 500,000 - I think it was about 300,000 for the city proper … but it balloons to over a million people on Holy Week. The Easter processions where brotherhoods of people march through the streets all day start on Monday and each day after get bigger and bigger and more numerous processions all week … it all culminates on Good Friday with the largest processions and about 20 processions marching through the streets … it’s also a ‘familyish’ event as the entire city will be filled with families, children, elderly, adults, teenagers … some drinking but no outright partying. But it is jam packed and mobs of people pushing together everywhere. Unless you’ve booked a place to stay weeks ahead of time, you won’t find any place to stay in the city unless you want to pay thousands per night.
The biggest day is Good Friday … events die off on Good Saturday and Easter Sunday is quiet as it is traditionally considered a holiday that is spent at home with family instead of making people work or participate at a major event.
During Holy Week … Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Almeria have big events, but the largest and most spectacular of them all is Malaga.
Here’s a photo of what you would see during Holy Week in Malaga … don’t let the imagery put you off, those outfits were part of the Catholic Church for hundreds of years before any one in North America used them … and the outfits and parades come in a variety of colours (black, white, purple, red), and the largest brotherhoods on Good Friday march with the Priesthood leadership, the brotherhood, the congregation, its elders, a full marching band, leading women, alter boys and girls and a float representative of their church (the largest of which weighs about 2/3 tons and is lifted and marched for several hours by a host of 100 men) …
One of the most famous brotherhoods includes the actor Antonio Banderas, who is from Malaga and he secretly and discreetly joins his brotherhood every year as one of the masked participants.
You got me excited because I’ve been to this celebration three times and each time it was amazing.
I just noticed you said 21 days … Holy Week is happening from April 13 to 21 this year … Holy Week is basicaly everything surrounding Easter (the Spanish celebrate it for a week before actual Easter Sunday) … Seville will have huge events starting on the Monday 13th and last all week until Sunday 20th
Seville has big events but Malaga has the biggest most spectacular gatherings that will last all week … the city has a population of about 500,000 - I think it was about 300,000 for the city proper … but it balloons to over a million people on Holy Week. The Easter processions where brotherhoods of people march through the streets all day start on Monday and each day after get bigger and bigger and more numerous processions all week … it all culminates on Good Friday with the largest processions and about 20 processions marching through the streets … it’s also a ‘familyish’ event as the entire city will be filled with families, children, elderly, adults, teenagers … some drinking but no outright partying. But it is jam packed and mobs of people pushing together everywhere. Unless you’ve booked a place to stay weeks ahead of time, you won’t find any place to stay in the city unless you want to pay thousands per night.
The biggest day is Good Friday … events die off on Good Saturday and Easter Sunday is quiet as it is traditionally considered a holiday that is spent at home with family instead of making people work or participate at a major event.
During Holy Week … Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Almeria have big events, but the largest and most spectacular of them all is Malaga.
Here’s a photo of what you would see during Holy Week in Malaga … don’t let the imagery put you off, those outfits were part of the Catholic Church for hundreds of years before any one in North America used them … and the outfits and parades come in a variety of colours (black, white, purple, red), and the largest brotherhoods on Good Friday march with the Priesthood leadership, the brotherhood, the congregation, its elders, a full marching band, leading women, alter boys and girls and a float representative of their church (the largest of which weighs about 2/3 tons and is lifted and marched for several hours by a host of 100 men) …
One of the most famous brotherhoods includes the actor Antonio Banderas, who is from Malaga and he secretly and discreetly joins his brotherhood every year as one of the masked participants.
You got me excited because I’ve been to this celebration three times and each time it was amazing.
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