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 realistic sculptures to Apartamentos Sevilla that are front pictures in the gigantic carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of a society ; penitents. The origin was found in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the sort of a strategy of the cross, later the special devotion to certain images led to the creation of religious 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 following step was when these brotherhoods became the main bonding component of the community 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 community and society. Actually and independent of the historic origin of each brotherhood, at the present, the main obligation of these spiritual 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 a precisely religious viewpoint, the most vital thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in truth it is more convoluted than that since all confraternities have to pass through what it is called the Official Route. This covers from piazza de la Campana de la Catedral passing through Streets Sierpes, piazza de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral through the Gate of San Miguel and leave again through Street Palos which leads out onto plaza 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, costs differ from day by day and depending on the chairs location.

in the journey there are 3 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 quantity of brotherhoods, both theso called 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 impossible. 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 before the procession and is subject to aparticularly stern time schedule which can’t be changed. If for whatever reason, such as weather or a larger force the procession can’t be completed the float is cancelled and the brotherhood must wait a whole year and try it again.

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