Holy week

Put in simple fashion so that we all understand, the Holy Week of Seville is the staging of the Passion of Christ in different episodes which are shown in the practical sculptures to Apartamentos Sevilla that are front photographs in the big carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of abrotherhood ; penitents. The origin was found in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the form of a way of the cross, later the special devotion to certain pictures led to the creation of spiritual associations. In the Baroque period they worked as a base for organizations of guild nature and thus they kept the names of the guilds as their reason for their origin ; the bakers, the negroes, the cart users

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The very next step was when these brotherhoods became the main bonding component of the neighbourhood or the parish. While La Macarena, San Bernardo, San Julian are among the oldest brotherhoods, San Gonzalo, Tiro de Linea, Nervion are farmore current, they all share the same idea of neighbourhood and society. In any case and independent of the important origin of each brotherhood, at the present, the main need of these spiritual associations is to bring their members in the penitence period from their headquarters or chapel to the urban Cathedral and from there back to their church.

Though seen from a precisely spiritual standpoint, the most significant thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in fact it is more involved than that since all confraternities have to pass thru what it is called the Official Route. This covers from square de la Campana de la Catedral passing thru Streets Sierpes, piazza de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral thru the Gate of San Miguel and leave again thru Street Palos which leads out onto square Virgen de los Reyes. All fraternities have to do the same route. Along the route you can hire a chair to see the processions, either by purchasing a regular or daily ticket, prices differ from day by day and depending on the chairs location.

in the journey there are three controls to check that each brotherhood follows the set time schedules. At the street La Campana they spare the time control of the General Council of Brotherhoods and Fraternities of Seville, someone that takes note of the number of brotherhoods, both the Penitence and Glory. Recently this street has become the best spot to see from the Aparameto Sevilla the different brotherhoods and finding a place to view from is almost most unlikely. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is found in piazza de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially talking the most important place to see the fraternities. Here access is limited to them accompanied by a member from the stage. The last control is done by the ecclesiastic authorities at the entrance of the Cathedral.

This route is planned prior to the procession and is subject to a very stern time schedule which can’t be modified. If for whatever reason, such as weather or agreater force the procession can’t be finished the float is cancelled and the brotherhood will need to wait an entire year and try it again.

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