Traditional Spanish Holy Week Costumes

During the Holy Week there are many festivals all over Span. Some of them are pretty well known such as the processions in Seville, Malaga and Leon. Here are some examples of the most traditional costumes in those provinces:

• SEVILLE:

This week features the procession of pasos, floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of individual scenes represent the Passion, or images of the Virgin Mary showing restrained grief for the torture and killing of her Son, Jesus Christ. Some of the sculptures are of great antiquity and are considered artistic masterpieces, as well as being culturally and spiritually important to the local Catholic population.

Above are traditional women’s costumes , in black and with a mantilla on the head.

 Here the is a picture of one of the multiple processions in Seville.

• MALAGA:

Holy Week in Malaga, is an ancient tradition that dates back to the age of the Catholic Monarchs. Holy Week in Malaga, is very different to that celebrated in other Andalusians or Spanish places, and those who go to Malaga for the first time will be surprised, as the week there is not lived with meditation and silence, but it is full of happiness, noise, cheer, spontaneous saetas (flamenco verses sung at the processions) and applause as the processions pass by.