Holy week

Put very 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 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 form 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 therefore 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 farmore current, they all share identical concept of neighbourhood and society. In any case and independent of the significant origin of each brotherhood, 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 urban Cathedral and from there back to their church.

Though seen from an exactly religious viewpoint, the most important thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in reality it is more complicated 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 through Streets Sierpes, square de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral thru the Gate of San Miguel and leave again through Street Palos which leads out onto piazza 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 regular or daily ticket, costs differ from day by day and depending on the chairs location.

during the journey there are 3 controls to test that each brotherhood 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. 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 just about most unlikely. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is located in piazza de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially speaking 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 before the procession and is subject to a very strict 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 complete year and try it again.

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