In 2013 Semana Santa will be the week of 24 - 31 March.
Semana Santa is Holy Week, and Sevilla’s celebration is likely the most famous in the world.
Holy Week is the last week of Lent (a period of forty days of fasting, prayer and penance for Christians) and contains the days of the Easter Triduum, as Holy Thursday, Holy commemorating the Last Supper, and the Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
The paso from the Macarena is perhaps one of the most famous imagenes of the Virgin Mary.
There are than 55 church brotherhoods, some dating as far back as the 13th century, carrying over 115 different floats, named "pasos", through the streets of the city, carried by the Nazarenos.
Most of the "pasos" marching bands plays music. Some processions, such as "El Silencio",however march in silence and without music. Almost every procession includes an image of Christ or the Virgin Mary, depicts an some scene from the bible.
Semana Santa means more than the processions in the streets, marks the arrival of spring in Sevilla, the end of the winter, with a week long celebration that fills the winding streets, churches, bars and restaurants, to the beggining of la Feria de Abril.
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