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Holy week
Put very simply so we all understand, the Holy Week of Seville is the staging of the Passion of Christ in different episodes which are shown in the pragmatic sculptures to Apartamentos Sevilla that are front images in the gigantic carriages accompanied by nazarenos, members of abrotherhood ; penitents. The origin was found in the doctrines of the Council of Trent. First they adopted the type of a strategy of the cross, later the special attention to certain pictures led to the creation of non secular associations. In the Baroque period they worked as a base for organizations of guild nature and thus they kept the names of the guilds as their reason for their origin ; the bakers, the negroes, the cart users
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The very next step was when these brotherhoods became the main bonding component of the community or the parish. While La Macarena, San Bernardo, San Julian are among the oldest brotherhoods, San Gonzalo, Tiro de Linea, Nervion are way more latest, all of them share identical idea of community and brotherhood. In any case and independent of the significant origin of each society, at the present, the main duty of these non secular associations is to bring their members during the penitence period from their headquarters or chapel to the metropolitan Cathedral and from there back to their church.
Though seen from astrictly non secular point of view, the most important thing is to come to the Cathedral and return, in reality it is more complicated than that since all confraternities have to pass through what it is called the Official Route. This covers from plaza de la Campana de la Catedral passing through Streets Sierpes, plaza de San Francisco, Avenida de la Constitucin, before they enter the Cathedral through the Gate of San Miguel and leave again through Street Palos which leads out onto piazza Virgen de los Reyes. All fraternities have to do the same route. Along the route you can rent a chair to see the processions, either by purchasing a once-per-week or daily ticket, prices differ from daily and depending on the chairs location.
during the journey there are three controls to check that each society follows the set time schedules. At the street La Campana they spare time control of the General Council of Brotherhoods and Fraternities of Seville, somebody that takes note of the number of brotherhoods, both the Penitence and Glory. Lately this street has become the best spot to see from the Aparameto Sevilla the different brotherhoods and finding a place to view from is just about not possible. The second control, carried out by the citys authorities, is located in piazza de San Francisco also called Palcos which is socially talking the most vital place to see the fraternities. Here access is restricted to them accompanied by a member from the stage. The last control is done by the ecclesiastic authorities at the entrance of the Cathedral.
This route is pencilled in before the procession and is subject to aparticularly stern time schedule which can’t be modified. If for whatever reason, such as weather or a bigger force the procession can’t be finished the float is cancelled and the society will need to wait a complete year and try it again.
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