Semana Santa: All Fiesta No Siesta During Spain’s Holy Week Spring has sprung, and to Americans that means polishing off those chocolate bunnies and searching for brightly colored eggs. Here in Spain however, Easter week is one of the biggest and most esteemed holidays of the year, and definitely worth checking out. Instead of massive candy sales and feeling obligated to go to church, you’ll find something far more stately, spiritual, and dare I say it, cultural? Semana Santa, or Holy Week, starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday. During this period, Spaniards and tourists alike come out in throngs to watch religious processions take place. On each night of the week, different hermandads (brotherhoods or parishes) take their pasos (floats) with enormous figures of Christ on the Cross, the Virgin Mary, and other
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