Spain’s epic Easter celebrations: Full Guide

Spain's epic Easter celebrations: Full Guide. Image of Nazarenos of Badajoz's Holy Week Procession. Credit: Shutterstock, Analisisgadgets. Inside Spain’s most dramatic Easter tradition – Secret chapels, hooded marchers and holy sandwiches. Every spring, the South of Spain transforms into a stage for one of the world’s most intense and breathtaking spectacles – Spanish Semana Santa, or Holy Week. This isn’t your chocolate egg Easter – it’s brass bands, burning incense, and floats the size of delivery vans edging through ancient streets, flanked by solemn hooded figures. It’s breathtaking, beautiful, and unnerving all at once. Here’s what you really need to know about Spain’s most mesmerising religious tradition – a mix of devotion, drama and, believe it or not, Tapas.Hooded robes: Misunderstood by outsidersTo visitors seeing Semana Santa for the first time, the sight of thousands of hooded penitents in long – often white – robes with crosses might send a chill down their spine – especia...