How do the Spanish celebrate Holy Week?

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Are there any differences between the celebrations held now and the celebrations from the 15th century onwards?

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This is definitely the big month for Spanish fiestas. You can start with Holy Week (Semana Santa) which is important all over Spain but should not be missed in Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Malaga. Very passionate teams of parish members (Cofradías) carry for hours huge wooden floats representing passages from the Bible. Great opportunity for photograph aficionados.

40 days before easter venezuelans celebrate the most colorful festival nationwide. carnaval is usually a four-day festivity, including a monday and a tuesday, where most people have all the days off and children are in break from school. Although children dress up in costumes, adults are actually the true carnaval celebrators. nationwide most people head to beach towns and villages in search of sun and joyous fiestas. The most authentic caranval celebration is in Carupano, the beach city on venezuela's eastern coast. a parade is common to the celebration. Revelers wear over-sized "papier-mache" masks, and march through the streets dressed as giant plumed birds, spanish characters from teh conquest, monsters, and even polititcians. They parade through carupano acting out regional legends and participate in folk adn salsa music dancing. For days of non-stop celebration, brands play in teh open air while townspeople and tourists share their partying enthusiasm by dancing as long as their bodies will allow them; enjoying as well, the freedom and contagious feeling of the fiesta. Intrinsic to the dancing is rum and liquor, these liquids ignite peoples' engergy and boost their spirits as they embark on the celebrations.


Throughout much of the Spanish-speaking world, there is no more colorful or momentous time of year than Holy Week. The week begins with Palm Sunday (el Domingo de Ramos), includes Good Friday (el Viernes Santo), and ends with Easter (la Pascua de Resurrección). Known as Semana Santa, the week marks the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem followed by his death and resurrection.
It is celebrated nearly everywhere in Latin America and Spain with religious observances and various types of processions. In some areas, the celebrations can become quite elaborate. Those in places such as Antigua, Guatemala, and Ayacucho, Peru, draw celebrants from throughout the world. In most of the Spanish-speaking world, Easter rivals if not surpasses Christmas as a time for celebration.

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