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If you would like to discover the popular customs of this region,
you should visit Seville in springtime, when within only two weeks
take place the two most important festivities of this city: Semana
Santa, Easter Week, with its world-famous processions, and
Feria de Sevilla, the Flamenco-event in
the land.
 The
traditions of
Semana Santa go back to 16th century, when the Catholic Church
decided to present the Passion of Christ to the population in an easily
understandable way: they had made huge wooden figures of Saints by
the greatest artists of that time and those figures were carried with
the processions. The realism of this representation impressed people
deeply indeed, and still today the Sevillanos are cheering the Holy
Virgin of their parish church in a way that is often hard to understand
for spectators.
 All
but different is Feria de Abril, taking
place two weeks later. Originally it was just a cattle-market, but
through the years it turned out to be one of the greatest popular
festivities in Spain. You will have the opportunity to see the typical
flamenco dresses, which almost all women, never mind their age, wear
Innumerable casetas, provisional houses, are built on the terrain
and decorated with colorful lamps. In the morning arrive the landowners
on horses or in horse-coaches. In the afternoon starts a great party
of Flamenco and sherry-wine in each Caseta that will take all the
night long That is repeated day by day during an entire week.
During this same week take place as well the most important bullfights
in town. |
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