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Semana Santa in Seville
Holy Week: brotherhoods carry sculpted floats of Christ and the Virgin through candlelit streets in hooded robes.
When is Semana Santa in Seville in 2027?
Semana Santa in Seville 2027 runs from 21 to 28 March 2027. Other years: 2026, 29 March to 5 April 2026; 2028, 9 to 16 April 2028.
About Semana Santa in Seville
In Seville, the Holy Week processions are among the most famous in the world. More than sixty brotherhoods, the cofradías, each take a pair of floats, pasos, from their church to the cathedral and back, over the days from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. One float holds a scene of the Passion, carved in the seventeenth century, and the other the Virgin, with a canopy and silver and flowers. The pasos are carried on the necks of the costaleros, hidden beneath the float, and come with bands playing slow marches. Penitents, the nazarenos, walk in pointed hoods and robes of the brotherhood's colour with candles, and sometimes barefoot. Spectators sing saetas, a short spontaneous sacred song, from balconies as the images pass.
Semana Santa in Seville dates: 2026, 2027, 2028
| Year | Semana Santa in Seville date |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 March to 5 April 2026 |
| 2027 | 21 to 28 March 2027 |
| 2028 | 9 to 16 April 2028 |
What is eaten
- torrijas
- pestiños
- bacalao
Also part of it, and being written: Paso (The float carried in procession.), Saeta (The sacred flamenco song.), Nazareno (The hooded penitent.), Cofradía (The lay brotherhood.).
Written by the EveryParampara desk with AI assistance. Background: "Holy Week in Spain" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.