Can you tell me any thing about semana santa in malaga?

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Can you tell me any thing about semana santa in malaga?

Answer 1

Holy Week processions mark the main religious celebrations in Spain but none as the processions of Málaga. Holy Week in Malaga are famous countrywide. Processions start on Palm Sunday and continue until Easter Sunday with the most dramatic and solemn on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Images from the Passion on huge ornate "tronos" (floats or thrones) some with more than 5.000 kilos carried by more than 250 members shape the processions that go for the streets with penitents dressed in long purple robes, often with pointed hats, followed by women in black carrying candles. Drums and trumpets play solemn music and occasionally someone spontaneously sings a mournful saeta dedicated to the floats it makes its way slowly round the streets.

Answer 2

I'll assume that you are after a more personal impression, since you can easily research a starkly cold one on multiple sites on line.

Semana Santa is a beautiful affair that shifts one's entire schedule by hours. Since many of the processions already mentioned leave their respective churches (and hermandades) well after dark and proceed at a snail-like half-step pace throughout the narrow downtown streets, festivities continue well past 4:00 in the morning. Many simply choose not to sleep until after they've eaten some chorros (fried dough) for breakfast.

Find someone that has been there before and can lead you to some of the ideal spots for viewing some of these tronos. They are breathtaking and require some remarkable discipline and skill to maneuver...at times through alleyways only inches wider than the structures themselves. Many in Malaga are carried from the outside, providing a view to those with the same burdensome task. In other cities throughout Andalucia (Jerez de la Frontera, for example) tronos are referred to as pasos and are often carried blindly (i.e., men are hidden under curtains that nearly extend to the ground and must walk blind according to instructions provided by those accompanying the structures. Amazing.

In addition to this, the streets are otherwise crowded with vendors selling everything from sugarcane to curious trinkets. And bars (cafes really) are open through much of the night to satisfy an unending appetite for jamon serrano, chorrizo or gambas a la plancha!

Malaga is a fairly large city boasting several beautiful beaches. So in the event you find youself surprisingly bored before dusk, take a nap on the beach, have a plate of paella on me and enjoy yourself!

Answer 3

Semana Santa in Malaga is an unforgettable experience with a great power to move your soul. You cannot help but get caught in the religious fervor, tradition and solemnity of the celebration. The celebration of Semana Santa in Malaga is one of the largest in Spain. Visitors from Spain and all over the world fill the streets, sometimes almost doubling the city’s population............

More at http://www.whatmalaga.com/semana-santa-m...

Here are lots of pictures for you to look at

http://www.aifp.org/images/galleries/sem...

And on here you can actually watch it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya38qciP8...

Anna