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Holy week

Put simply , so we all understand, the Holy Week of Seville is the staging of the Passion of Christ in different episodes which are shown in the realistic sculptures to Apartamentos Sevilla that are front images in the gigantic carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of a society ; penitents. The origin was discovered in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the type of a strategy of the cross, later the special devotion to certain pictures led to the creation of religious associations. During 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 element 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 way more recent, they all share identical concept of neighbourhood and society. Actually and independent of the significant origin of each brotherhood, at the present, the main duty of these non secular associations is to bring their members in the penitence period from their headquarters or chapel to the metropolitan Cathedral and from there back to their church.

Though seen from astrictly religious standpoint, the most significant thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in reality it is more convoluted than that since all confraternities have to pass through what it is called the Official Route. This covers from square de la Campana de la Catedral passing thru Streets Sierpes, square de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral through 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 rent a chair to see the processions, either by purchasing a weekly or daily ticket, prices differ from day by day and depending on the chairs location.

in the journey there are 3 controls to test that each brotherhood follows the set time schedules. At the street La Campana they find 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. Lately this street has become the best spot to see from the Aparameto Sevilla the different brotherhoods and finding a place to view from is just about impossible. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is located in square de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially speaking the most vital place to see the fraternities. Here access is restricted 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 before the procession and is subject to a very strict time schedule which can’t be modified. If for whatever reason, like weather or a bigger force the procession can’t be finished the float is cancelled and the brotherhood will have to wait a whole year and try it again.

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