Spain The favorite destinations to travel at Easter
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Most of the towns below are well worth a visit at any time of year.
Not only because they are among the most beautiful in Spain, but because of how they live Holy Week.
Then, they transform their
streets, squares, restaurants
and to give way to processions, drumming, masses, parades and historical re-enactments that do not lack detail.
We go through
them from Extremadura to Andalusia or Aragon.
FRIGILIANA (MALAGA)
It is well known that Holy Week in Andalusia is another story.
But not everything is lived in the capitals like
Seville, Malaga or Granada
.
Towns such as Malaga's Frigiliana, one of the most beautiful not only in the South but in all of Spain, can boast
one of the most authentic and solemn celebrations in
the country.
There, in the Axarquia region, these days everyone takes to the streets.
To those streets full of white facades, with their flowery balconies and their
esparto and ceramic handicraft shops
.
Then, the black tunics, the light of the candles and the arrows of the women make up a show of color, floral aromas and fervor worth seeing.
Easter in Frigiliana (Cádiz). TOURISM ANDALUSIA
TRUJILLO (CACERES)
The Holy Week of the population of Extremadura was declared
a Festival of Regional Tourist Interest
in 2012. And that there are references to it since the 7th century, when the Mysteries of the Passion were contemplated in the Visigoth basilica of Trujillo.
The celebration begins with an opening proclamation and culminates with
the Chíviri celebration on Easter
Sunday, when the
Plaza Mayor
(and in general the entire town) bustles to the rhythm of typical songs and countless people dress as shepherds or shepherdesses.
Orchestral music and parades starring
beautiful carved figures
are some of its attractions.
Also the Procession of Silence, one of the most impressive in Extremadura.
These days in the Cáceres town of Trujillo. TOURISM EXTREMADURA
CHINCHON (MADRID)
The capital also boasts of luxury celebrations when these dates arrive.
An example is lived in Chinchón, one of the most beautiful (official) towns in the region.
Not only does it host a good number of processions, but it also has
the oldest Passion in the community
, since it began to take place in 1963. Among its main attractions is the representation of
the Passion and Death of Christ,
declared an artistic-religious act of National Tourist Interest 1980 and which takes place on Holy Saturday at sunset.
The scene of
The Last Supper
begins the ceremony, which is performed in the Plaza Mayor, on the balcony of the Town Hall.
The act continues towards the Plaza de San Roque, with the passages of Christ in the
Mount of Olives and The Arrest
.
It is followed, on Calle Morata, by the First Fall of Jesus.
In the second, all the decorative display of its main square can be seen.
Recreation in the Plaza Mayor of Chinchón.CAM
CALANDA (TERUEL)
This Teruel town is one of the nine that are part of
the Ruta del Tambor y el Bombo,
with its festivities to the sound of drumbeats, when Easter arrives.
Hence, your visit on these dates is a must.
For something, its Holy Week has been declared a Festival of National and International Tourist Interest.
The most awaited moment is
the breaking of the hour
, which takes place at noon on Good Friday.
Thousands of drums and bass drums congregate in the square and, at 12 noon, they begin to sound in unison.
Shortly after, the
procession of El Pregón takes place.
Then the drumbeats stop, just as the town crier proclaims the Death of Christ.
After the procession of the
Holy Burial
on Saturday afternoon, the sound of the instruments is fired until next year.
Procession in the streets of Calanda. TERUEL TOURISM
MEDINACELI (SORIA)
Holy Week in Soria is sober, which does not mean that it is one of the most impressive and fervent in the whole country.
Among the most outstanding processions in Medinaceli is that of all the
Pasos de la Pasión del Señor
, which runs through the center of the town.
The acts are celebrated exactly as they have been since the second half of the 16th century.
The bugle and drum bands are present and there are undisputed protagonists, the children.
To the point of having its own way of the cross, which runs
from the hermitage of San Julián to the Collegiate Church
.
They walk the main streets of the historic center while carrying a series of recently recovered images.
The tradition passes from father to son.
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