Semana Santa, or Holy Week is celebrated in almost every Spanish city and town beginning on the Sunday before Easter and continuing through Easter Sunday. For a two week vacation period, families visit beaches and take part in rituals celebrating the country’s Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations are a fusion of Christian rituals and native indigenous traditions with a diversity of traditions linked to particular regions and cities.
Semana Santa traditions are vibrant celebrations that take place during the days leading up to Easter. Most of the larger rituals include a dramatic reenactment of the capture, the trial, and the crucifixion of Jesus. Emotion-stirring processions make their way through cities and towns across Spain; participants of these processions are members of brotherhoods, responsible for skillfully carrying…show more content… The tradition is to eat seafood, respecting the Catholic practice to not eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Rice, shrimp, ceviche, and fried fish are eaten, as well as empanadas, pudding and jelly for dessert. Those not celebrating at home go to the beach, taking advantage of the long vacation period.
Although both Easter and Semana Sunday are celebrating the same thing, Jesus’s resurrection, both holidays include very different ways of celebrating it. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate by hiding and hunting for plastic eggs filled with candy; some christians celebrate Good Friday by fasting and penance. Semana Santa is celebrated for weeks with processions in the city and streets and vacations to the beach.
Semana Santa is the holiday celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The traditions each person take part in are usually based on the region or city you live in. Some celebrate by going on vacation, and some celebrate by taking part in processions. This religious holiday is one of the most important in the world, it is a time for reflection and
