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HOLY WEEK

Holy Week is, without a doubt, one of the most important festivals in Cabra. It was declared a Festival of National Tourist Interest in 1989. Its brotherhoods, the magnificent historical-artistic heritage, the quality of the images that are paraded, make up a host of circumstances that are shown with a stamp of seriousness and respect that fills the streets of Cabra. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, twenty-six brotherhoods take to the streets with their traditional elements, symbols and titular images.

The processional processions contain varied styles in the form and the elements. Long rows of caps with varied habits and colours accompany the steps of the images of Jesus and Mary with wax, crosses and chains or lanterns. Scripts and gold-embroidered velvet mantles from the convents of the Dominicans of San Martín (now disappeared) and the Agustinas Recoletas. Centuries of tradition and art that open the parades that take place before the processions announcing their start, especially the one on Good Friday afternoon. Banners of peaks, with ovals of oil images. Stars that serve as lanterns, made with tin and glass and that with the light of the wax, give colour and brightness to the nights of Holy Week in Cabra. Jews and Romans, drums and trumpets. The tradition of Holy Week in Egabria is kept alive in the añafiles or 'bumblebees' (elongated trumpets) that with their peculiar sound announce that the passage of Jesus or Mary is approaching. The touch of the veilbreaker that is heard at dawn on Good Friday. The Saeta de Cabra, with a unique toná and lyrics. The art of the best image makers of the 17th and 18th centuries left their mark on works of marked artistic and devotional interest.

Semana Santa
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