Semana Santa de Salamanca


  • Photographer
    Angela Scolaro
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    April 2009

Holy Week in Salamanca (Semana Santa de Salamanca) is the most important religious and cultural event of Salamanca, Spain. It is celebrated during the week leading up to Easter. During Holy Week, processions of beating drums, penitents, and floats of wooden sculptures narrating scenes of the events of the Passion of Christ make their way through the narrow streets. Some of the sculptures are several centuries old. Hundreds of penitents or "cofrades" take part in the parades, walking the old streets of the city with crosses, flags or candles. Thousands of people, locals and visitors, attend the events.

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