La Madrugá - Holy Week, Seville

I've spent this Easter in Seville, visiting my sister and La Semana Santa sevillana (quite famous in Spain)

There are a lot of religious parades and the city is full of life during the week. Spanish religious parades during Easter are colourful and a bit odd, at least for foreigners... :-) You can take a look to some info and pics.

Below you will find some pics that I took in the Madrugá (Early morning in sevillian dialect) It goes from Thursday night to Friday morning and during that night the city is full of parades, people walking around the city (and this being


The virgin of Triana exits the church...
La Madrugá has started (01:00AM)



La Hermandad de la Esperanza exits the Macarena quarter
and enters the old city (03:30 AM)



Crossing the Macarena bridge (03:45 AM)


The virgin of Macarena (04:00 AM)


The silence brotherhood closing the gates after the parade (05:00 AM)


Jesús del Gran Poder (06:00 AM)


Members of the Hermandad del Gran Poder (06:30 AM)


Procesión de la hermandad del Calvario (07:30 AM)


Cristo del Calvario returning home (08:00 AM)


The Gypsies' Christ (10:00 AM)

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