On
Saturday night Paul’s parents arrived from the UK and finally on Sunday the
Semana Santa started. We were right there, all excited and slightly sweating in
the heat, to see the very first paso
of the Holy Week. La Paz (The Peace) is one of the ‘big ones’ with 1900 nazarenos dressed in all white. Another
great thing about this cofradía is that
it goes through the Maria Luisa Park and in front of Plaza España which is my
favourite place in Seville.
It
was all so grand, there were pointy hats everywhere in a long, long line, the
sun lit up their white tunics.
There
were many children as well, some of them didn’t have their faces covered.
We
found this little girl all dressed up, she was probably the smallest ‘altar boy’
in the whole Seville. She looked adorable!
A
new thing we noticed here was that there weren’t only sweets in the deep,
bulging pockets of the nazarenos,
they also handed out little pictures of Jesus and the Virgin. I got one, too,
from a grandfather who took one out of his granddaughter’s sweetie-collecting bag.
It made me smile as it was actually a business card! It seemed these pictures
were prized by the children and had an equal status to football cards.
We
also saw ‘nazareno families’ where
the adult and the child nazarenos
walked hand in hand in the line.
An
added bonus here was the riding squad.
Finally,
the paso itself.
The
second paso, the Virgin.
This
was a great procession. The fact that it went through the Parque de Maria Luisa
meant that there was a lot of space to see them and there wasn’t a very big
crowd in one place. After seeing this we were all fired up to see some more!
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