If you’re after a raucous romp, this probably isn’t the festival for you, but from an artistic and cultural perspective, it’s fascinating and hard to beat.
The Andalucía city of Seville is host to Semana Santa (Holy Week), one of the most spectacular and elaborate of the Easter festivities. There is a great deal of emotion on display during the festival, along with intricately crafted baroque religious statues paraded through the streets and large processions of Easter brotherhoods in traditional robes (with their pointed, vaguely sinister-looking hoods). Although the atmosphere is usually rather sombre, there are moments of lightness, too, as well as plenty of feasting. If you’re after a raucous romp, this probably isn’t the festival for you, but from an artistic and cultural perspective, it’s fascinating and hard to beat.