The Holy Week is the highlight of the Lenten season observed by Catholics around the world. The
meaningful weeklong celebration commemorates the paschal mystery (passion, death, and resurrection) of Jesus Christ and reaches its peak during Easter Sunday. Rather than the usual festival, the Holy Week is actually a more profound and spiritual occasion where in Catholics around the world become one in reflecting the significance of the paschal mystery in their lives.
Needless to say, the Holy Week still takes the form of a
popular festival due to the processions and other practices that has continued to attract Catholics as well as tourists. The best and most beautiful Holy Week celebrations are witnessed in Spain particularly in Seville, Malaga, Granada, Valladolid, Murcia, and Cartagena. During the Semana Santa thousands of local people as well as foreigners flock the "calles" in order to witness and participate in the religious celebration.
The Seville, with its splendid processions and realistic representations of Jesus' passion, death, and resurrection, is the epitome of a Spanish
Semana Santa. During the week long celebration, life- sized sculptures depicting the paschal mystery are paraded all throughout the "calles." Aside from those images, the "coffradias" that manage the processions are also among the main attractions of the Semana Santa in Seville.
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