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Semana Santa brotherhoods put finishing touches to their annual week of processions

NEIL HESKETH

All eyes in the last few days have been on the weather forecast for next week ahead of Semana Santa celebrations. The most important period in Spain's cultural calendar starts this weekend with processions, run by the Confradías (or brotherhoods), ... on Palm Sunday (14 April). In larger towns in Malaga province there are religious processions throughout much of next week, especially in Malaga city, Marbella and Vélez-Málaga on the Costa. More places join in as the week goes on and by next ... different processions spread over six days will wind their way through the streets, staggered from mid-afternoon to the early hours of the next morning. This Sunday the processions start a bit earlier at 10.15am with the Pollinica, a representation of

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Rincón school's Holy Week exhibition open to everyone

VICTORIA BUSTAMANTE

Week processions was started by Sister Mercedes Fernández and has grown over the years with teachers and pupils adding their own contributions. Guided tours are available to anyone who goes along to the school during Holy Week.

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Good weather is forecast for next few days as tourist industry gets ready

Pilar MARTÍNEZ / Ignacio LILLO

It wasn't just the thousands due to take part in the religious processions that have been watching the skies ahead of next week. Bosses in the tourism sector were hoping for a dry start to the peak season this year with high occupancies expected in

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Vélez mayor says work will not affect Holy Week

Mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, has given his assurances that the town's Holy Week processions will not be affected by plans to pedestrianise Vélez town centre. Speaking last week, he said that the traditional routes used by the

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Easter devotion hits the streets of Malaga

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Holy Week processions and other events have brought crowds into Malaga this week, as dozens of brotherhoods carry their images of Christ and Our Lady through the streets in their annual processions. Early in the morning of Holy Monday, thousands ... of people gathered outside San Pablo church to see the images of Jesús Cautivo and María Santísima de la Trinidad brought from their chapel. That evening, processions of Jesús de la Columna, María Santísima de la O and 'Los Gitanos', the joyful gypsy

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Wave-battered beaches need fast action to be ready for Easter

IGNACIO LILLO

...holiday period, when thousands flock to the city to watch processions and enjoy the sunshine. Axarquía The sea meets the N-340 In the Axarquía the areas of Valle Niza and Chilches were worst hit. The sea came up as far as the main N-340 coast road,

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Official seating added to Marbella's celebration

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A thousand seats will be put out on the ceremonial part of the route of the Holy Week processions in Marbella this year. The seating, which will be free of charge, is designed to give the formal section of each of the parades a more impressive feel

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New app to help follow a historic tradition

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Marbella council has launched a smartphone app so spectators and participants can keep up to date with the movements of the Holy Week processions through the town. The app is called Semana Santa Marbella 2018 and as well as the routes also includes

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Vélez-Málaga mayor accused of "improvised" Holy Week safety measures

Agustín Peláez

The leader of the opposition party at Vélez-Málaga town hall, Francisco Delgado, has asked for a report on the training volunteer security staff were given before last week's Holy Week processions in the town. He has accused the current mayor,

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Extra care taken amid Holy Week safety fears

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Organisers of Malaga's huge Holy Week processions this coming week have been taking extra precautions over crowd safety after a late-night stampede last year narrowly avoided serious injuries. Police have been told to stop spectators setting up ... makeshift seating on the pavements in key areas and blocking the flow of pedestrians viewing or following the processional thrones. In addition the committee organising the many processions has agreed to let some divert their route from one stretch of road