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 images in the huge carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of abrotherhood ; penitents. The origin was discovered in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the sort of a way of the cross, later the special devotion to certain images ended in the creation of religious associations. In the Baroque period they worked as a base for organizations of guild nature and so 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 next step was when these brotherhoods became the main bonding element of the area or the parish. While La Macarena, San Bernardo, San Julian are among the oldest brotherhoods, San Gonzalo, Tiro de Linea, Nervion are way more latest, all of them share similar idea of area and brotherhood. In any case and independent of the important origin of each society, at the present, the main duty of these spiritual associations is to bring their members during 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 complicated 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, piazza 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 hire a chair to see the processions, either by purchasing a weekly or daily ticket, costs differ from day to day and depending on the chairs location.

during the journey there are 3 controls to test that each society follows the set time schedules. At the street La Campana they spare 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. 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 almost not possible. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is found in square de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially talking the most important place to see the fraternities. Here access is confined 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 scheduled prior to the procession and is subject to aparticularly 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 society will need to wait an entire year and try it again.

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