Travel, Leisure and Recreation

Holy week

Put very simply so we all understand, the Holy Week of Seville is the staging of the Passion of Christ in different episodes which are shown in the realistic sculptures to Apartamentos Sevilla that are front photographs in the gigantic carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of a society ; penitents. The origin was found in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the form of a way of the cross, later the special attention to certain images led to the creation of religious associations. During the Baroque period they worked as a base for organizations of guild nature and so they kept the names of the guilds as their reason for their origin ; the bakers, the negroes, the cart users

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The very next step was when these brotherhoods became the main bonding component of the neighbourhood or the parish. While La Macarena, San Bernardo, San Julian are among the oldest brotherhoods, San Gonzalo, Tiro de Linea, Nervion are way more latest, all of them share identical concept of neighbourhood and society. In any case and independent of the important origin of each brotherhood, at the present, the main obligation of these non secular associations is to bring their members in the penitence period from their headquarters or chapel to the urban Cathedral and from there back to their church.

Though seen from a precisely religious viewpoint, the most significant thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in fact it is more complicated than that since all confraternities have to pass through what it is called the Official Route. This covers from plaza de la Campana de la Catedral passing through Streets Sierpes, piazza de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral through the Gate of San Miguel and leave again through Street Palos which leads out onto plaza Virgen de los Reyes. All fraternities have to do the same route. Along the route you can rent a chair to see the processions, either by purchasing a weekly or daily ticket, costs differ from day by day and depending on the chairs location.

In the journey there are 3 controls to check that each brotherhood follows the set time schedules. At the street La Campana they spare time control of the General Council of Brotherhoods and Fraternities of Seville, somebody that takes note of the amount of brotherhoods, both the Penitence and Glory. Recently this street has become the best spot to see from the Aparameto Sevilla the different brotherhoods and finding a place to view from is almost not possible. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is located in plaza de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially speaking the most vital place to see the fraternities. Here access is confined to them accompanied by a member from the stage. The last control is done by the ecclesiastic authorities at the entrance of the Cathedral.

This route is planned prior to the procession and is subject to a very strict time schedule which can’t be modified. If for whatever reason, like weather or a bigger force the procession can’t be completed the float is cancelled and the brotherhood will have to wait a whole year and try it again.

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