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Four hours before the Madrugá began in Seville, the Colegiata bonsai Madrugá went out to the center of the city.

The Great Power and the Macarena make up a single brotherhood, as if each province had a representative in the city and the Andalusian capital had two flag bearers here in the copy of its most representative images.

Popular expressions of faith also arrive at the breakwater.

At 6:39 p.m., the bearers form a pineapple on one of the sides of the Royal Collegiate Church and Basilica of San Isidro.

Most Nazarenes do not have their hoods on.

Inside the temple, the office of Holy Thursday is celebrated with the doors open.

-We are the only ones who do it -comments a servant of the brotherhood-.

The ladies point to the owners of the guild with the touch screens.

An Indian tourist answers a video call.

Incense is the only thing that unites Holy Week in western Andalusia with this democratization of brotherhood processes.

Quino, with the tunic of the Nazarenes of the Great Power, long ago.

"It's the first year I'm going out,"

he says.

He signed up "four or five years" ago.

When he worked in Seville, a Madrugá came out in the brotherhood of Gran Poder.

"Some friends took me to San Lorenzo and I had unique sensations. When I came to work in Madrid I became a brother of this brotherhood."

In the street you can see Andalusian aesthetic references with that plasticized air that all the things copied around the M-30 have.

Sideburns.

Green puffers.

Capote brand vests.

The urban gentlemen of the unusual neighborhoods.

The brotherhood takes out a procession with "more than 200 Nazarenes" and they are, in total, "1,100 brothers"

, says María Luisa, who is organizing the sections.

Linear City with the Macarena

"Before it was from another brotherhood in my neighborhood," says Maribel.

"Why did I sign up for this one?" her eyes sparkle.

"I've been a sister for 25 years. I'm very sorry for everything in Seville.

Flamenco, Holy Week, not the bulls. So I said now I'm becoming a sister of an Andalusian-style brotherhood

. "

She is a neighbor of Ciudad Lineal and no one accompanies her to the penitence station.

"I think there are fewer Nazarenes than in 2019."

Maribel does not lead a brotherhood life.

"I come little."

The brotherhood was founded in 1940 by a group of Sevillians.

It is the oldest in Madrid.

Since 1978 it has been attached to the Collegiate Church.

"Her grandmother liked the brotherhood very much," Nacho, who lives in Villalba, points out to her daughter, dressed in the Macarena Nazarene tunic.

"She instilled it in her uncles and here we are pulling the thread."

Several relatives procession on Holy Thursday.

"We also have a relative from Seville who completes the circle"

In the crush of the exit, a man asks out loud two or three times who of all those who are waiting go to mass on Sundays.

Four Nazarene converse in the hall of a door of the brotherhood house.

One of them is smoking.

Topics are extracted from the conversations.

"In Seville you have to pay to see them come out."

Or "balconies are worth 6,000 euros."

"We love the Macarena and the Gran Poder and here we have them together", Mercedes justifies its adherence.

She has been a sister for 20 years.

She hangs the brotherhood medal on him.

"We have never seen the Madrugá. We settle for it. We stay in Madrid"

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