Seville Experiences Holy Week: Tradition, Faith, and Culture in Every Corner of the City

Seville, Spain — The city of Seville once again becomes a living stage of faith, art, and devotion with the celebration of its emblematic Holy Week. Between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, more than 60 brotherhoods parade through the streets of the historic center toward the Cathedral, reliving with solemnity and splendor the episodes of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This religious event is joined by 16 brotherhoods and parish groups that process in the days leading up to it, on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, although they do not follow the official route, the established route for brotherhoods that access the cathedral.

Holy Week in Seville is not only a spiritual event. It is also a sociocultural and economic phenomenon that transforms the city every spring. Declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest in 1980, it attracts thousands of national and international visitors who seek to experience the emotional and artistic intensity of the processions firsthand.

The floats—authentic works of Baroque art carried by costaleros—advance amid the sound of processional marches, the scent of incense, and saeteros improvising from the balconies. All under the coordination of the General Council of Brotherhoods and Confraternities, which regulates the itineraries, schedules, and institutional agreements.

In addition to the processions, each brotherhood pays homage to its titular images throughout the year through novenas, quinarios, triduos, and kissing of hands, strengthening religious life in the neighborhoods.

Beyond the fervor, Holy Week is also an economic engine for the city. Hotels, bars, shops, and artisans experience these days as one of their busiest times.

Seville is transformed, once again, into an epicenter of tradition and faith, where silence, emotion, and sacred art transform every street into a temple open to the world.

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