This
is the last cofradía I’m going to
write about. Frigiliana lies only a few kilometres from Nerja, nestled on the side of a hill (you can read more about it here.) It is a very attractive
village full or tourists so try to visit it out of season.
We
went over there on Good Friday to see the pasos
coming out of the church and had to wait for about 40 minutes! This was the
first time when things didn’t start on time. The outfit of the nazarenos were completely different,
they had those Egyptian style headdresses which stretched down their backs. No
more pointy hats! Their tunic ended in a long tail which they pulled after them
while walking which meant that the procession was extremely long!
They
also had a different candle. Instead of the long, giant ones they had short
ones with a little paper attachment to it to hold up the wax. How clever! They
actually looked quite nice, all those bright lights in front of the darkness of
the tunics, like flowers.
I
was surprised to see that there were no ramps to help the costaleros down the steps. The mistery was solved soon when we saw
that the pasos were tiny! They actually
had three as the Cruz de Guía had its
own little paso.
The
paso of Jesus.
Behind
the paso walked the 12 apostles wearing
robes and masks. Some of these masks were made in the 18th century
so they are pretty old. Was a bit freaky to see them walking like that, to be
honest.
As
it just seemed to go on and on we didn’t wait to see the paso of the Virgin.
It
was very interesting to see how similar but still so different the processions
can be in Andalusia. It was an incredible experience and I really hope that we
will be here to see the Semana Santa next year, too.
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