SPAN 2 Celebrating Semana Santa in the Spanish-speaking world by Jenna Berglund

Srta. Berglund

jenna_berglund — 2025-02-21 13:40:52 UTC

In Sevilla, Spain thousands of people attend processions beginning on Palm Sunday. Brotherhoods "cofradias" carry the heavy "pasos" for hours as they parade around the city.

Countries

jenna_berglund — 2025-02-21 13:41:07 UTC

Antigua, Guatemala
Ayacucho, Peru
Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México
Popáyan, Colombia

Alejandro

2025-02-21 15:20:07 UTC

In Popayan, the celebrations for Holy Week have been going for hundreds of years. Everyone parades to the old district and walks around and parties all night.

Micah

2025-02-21 15:20:46 UTC

In Antigua, they celebrate Semana Santa for around 6 weeks. They lent for 6 weeks just like in the colonial era. More than 1 million visitors swell Antigua for the celebration. Many generations participate/participated in this celebration, and it won't stop anytime soon.

Armani

2025-02-21 15:22:26 UTC

In Antigua the celebrations for Semana Santa for around 6-7 weeks. They celebrate with these beautiful carpets with more than a million people watching. So many people participate in these events that take place and wont stop.

Mason

mason_sires — 2025-02-21 15:22:48 UTC

Semana Santa in Guatemala is a Holy Week celebration with colorful processions sawdust carpets and religious plays. The streets are filled with music and community spirit. It's a week of faith and tradition.

Santiago

2025-02-21 15:24:02 UTC

In Antigua during Semana Santa, local churches sponsor religious processions. These marches start from a church, follow a pre-planned route through Antigua, and then return to the same church several hours later. They also build carpets out of flowers in intricate paterns.

Hailee

2025-02-21 15:24:18 UTC

In Antigua, celebrations for Holy Week last 6 weeks. More than 1 million visitors visit Antigua to celebrate Semana Santa. They have beautiful carpets and many other century old celebration items. The celebration isn't celebrated better than in Antigua.

Kaitlyn

2025-02-21 15:25:40 UTC

Semana Santa in Peru has many parades with many different performances. Many men and women preform different types of folk dances in the streets.

Rylee

2025-02-21 15:25:49 UTC

In Antigua, Guatemala, Semana Santa is celebrated over span of 6 weeks. There are many different patterns of carpets and represent the Holy week. Many generations celebrate this, including over one million visitors.

C.DeCook

2025-02-21 15:26:11 UTC

In Iztapalapa, Mexico, They celebrate Holy week with passion plays and street dances. The celebrations can last from Palm Sunday and concluding on Holy Saturday. The street plays have a lot of fun music, dancing and the community can enjoy food.

Trent King

2025-02-21 15:26:15 UTC

In Popayan they celebrate of the passion and the death of jesus Christ. Semana santa has been performed regularly in colombia since the sixteenth century. takes place in the ancient streets of the "white city"

myadeyoung — 2025-02-21 15:27:17 UTC

In Ayacucho, Peru The Celebrations of Semana Santa is 10 days. There is colorful carpets and dancing. The streets get filled with many people who celebrate it together with music.

Liam

2025-02-21 15:41:56 UTC

Semana santa has been celebrated in Malaga for over 500 years. In malaga they have 42 brothers holding or carrying wooden thrones and sculptures. Malaga also has one of the biggest tourist attractions during semana santa.

Asher Langseth

2025-02-21 16:10:31 UTC

In Guatemala during la Semana Santa they celebrate by making beautiful Alfombras with sawdust and flowers. They also have many religious processions, and they make traditional foods.

Ella

2025-02-21 16:11:00 UTC

In Ayacucho, Peru, Semana Santa is celebrated beginning on Palm Sunday. They bless flowers and palms that are brought to a statue of Jesus. After Good Friday, the festival changes from solemn to celebratory. They have art shows, dancing, concerts, sporting events, and food contests. The festival ends with everyone gathering around the pyramid with bells and fireworks to celebrate the resurrection.

Grant Jeardeau

2025-02-21 16:13:18 UTC

In Guatemala, they walk the streets with different heavy floats. They color the streets with flowers to create a bright colorful pathway. They make a variety of traditional food.

Hailey

2025-02-21 16:15:20 UTC

In Iztapalapa, people create a reenactment of 'The Passion', which refers to Jesus' suffering and crucifixion. The tradition is so important that the person who is assigned the role of Jesus must train physically and psychologically for a whole year to accurately play the part.

Abby P.

2025-02-21 16:16:10 UTC

In Antigua, Holy Week is a very notable event in the country. Holy Week entails of funeral marches, vigils, processions, the creation of carpets, orchards, and altars. It occurs the seven days leading up to Easter. It blends Catholic practices that were introduced by the Spanish centuries ago.

Jenna

2025-02-21 16:17:05 UTC

In Antigua, churches use vigrils (velaciones) to celebrate Semana Santa. Members of the church create dioramas near the alter using statues that will appear in the upcoming procession. Fruits and vegetables are then placed on a sawdust carpet at the foot of the alter, (known as the "garden"), which symbolizes the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed before he was arrested.

jacobbillings2 — 2025-02-21 16:17:54 UTC

In Colombia, around a quarter million people gather to watch this parade and the eerie devotion of its penitents. Instead of representing "the Klan", this has been a thing long before. The men in purple, Cucuruchos, often march barefoot carrying chains and heavy crosses as a form of redemption for their sins. The women in purple, Veronicas, pay homage to the woman who wiped Jesus's face with her veil.

Anna

2025-02-21 16:18:10 UTC

In Antigua Guatemala, they start off Semana Santa with a parade on Palm Sunday. At this parade they renact Jesus entering Jersulam on Palm Sunday. Then on Maundy Thursday they start creating alfombras or saw dust rugs. They stay up all night creating so they are done by Good Friday when the parade start at 4 am in mourning. They mourn until 10pm on Saturday when churches start holding Easter Sunday services.

Adeline Walterman

2025-02-21 16:24:34 UTC

In Ayacucho, Peru, celebrating Semana Santa is very important. It often comes with many different gifts or decorative items. The items include different rugs, flowers, masks. They take Semana Santa very seriously because it is an important part of their religion.

Colton

2025-02-21 17:31:12 UTC

Semana Santa in Ayacucho, Peru, is a special religious celebration with colorful parades and music. People gather to watch and take part in the events. It is a time for fun, attracting many visitors each year.

Maddie

2025-02-21 18:13:04 UTC

In Ayacucho Peru, they celebrate from the Friday before palm Sunday. The people believe that the during the days between Christ's death and resurrection sin does not exist, so they partake in parties and festivals without the fear of committing sin.

Sam J

2025-02-24 15:15:11 UTC

In Ayacuchon, Peru, many colors and lights play a significant role in celebrating Semana Santa. Throughout the week, there are certain days that you wear certain colors. For example, on Easter, they wear White or Gold, another example is on Good Friday, they wear Black.

Clara

2025-02-24 15:23:34 UTC

Semana Santa in Peru has many different parades with huge floats and many traditional dances. A lot of women and men preform different things like dancing or carrying the huge float.