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Spain prepares for one of the most anticipated weeks of the year
It will be the second year that Holy Week is celebrated after the global pandemic and good weather is expected to be present.
O Holy Week It is celebrated throughout Spain, but there are many customs, traditions and curiosities that make it up. Furthermore, this festival causes the arrival of tourists from all over the world.
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Throughout the article, we will mention some of the traditions most curious and interesting in Spanish territory.
The passage of Jesus the Rich
In Malaga, every Holy Wednesday a prisoner no blood crimes are released. Sounds strange, right?
It all started when the plague epidemics reached the Andalusian province. A group of prisoners devoted to Christ asked the prison director to start a procession after the difficult times they were experiencing. The director refused the proposal. Continuing with the legend of Malaga, the prisoners, after the director's rejection, organized an uprising in the prison and managed to escape. However, they went to the convent where the image of Christ in the procession they intended to take was and paraded it through all the streets. After doing so, they returned to prison instead of escaping.
Ithe news arrived Charles III who approved a law so that the procession would leave every year, and also, each time it passed through the prison, a prisoner would be released. Finally, legend says that a few days after the incident, the plague disappeared from the Andalusian province.
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the capture of Judas
As the name suggests, it is made up of to hunt for Judas. This tradition has been celebrated in Cabanillas since the 19th century. It is celebrated on Easter Sunday and begins with the appearance of Judas in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento dressed in red and silver and with a mesh on his head. Young people will dress like Romans and they will have to chase him until they catch him. Judas will hide among people, enter some houses to steal food and even jump between balconies. After some young Roman hunts down the aforementioned, he is beheaded as a traitor.
The procession of drunks
The 'Burial of Genarin' is an act that raised controversy but it continues to be celebrated every Holy Week in the province of León. This act refers to the figure of Genaro Blanco, a day laborer who died on the night of Maundy Thursday in 1929. He was run over by a garbage truck near the walls of León.
And that's where the controversy comes in, since the deceased's death certificate contains different data than what some of its inhabitants have. According to the records, he died on Good Friday at eleven in the morning, and the supposed garbage truck was nothing more than a cleaning truck in the hands of a 19-year-old young man.
In the year following the death of Genarinfour friends decided to do the same route which he did on the night of his death, visiting the same places and having dinner in the same way. FOR Genarin a large number of negative adjectives are attributed to him: drunk, swindler…
This procession was Prohibited during the Franco dictatorship. Currently, they have between 20,000 and 30,000 people, especially young people who party and drink during the tour.
