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A Semana Santa with no processions - but plenty of charity

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Occasionally rain has caused the cancellation - or interruption - of one of Andalucía's Holy Week processions, causing tears of disappointment among participants. In Malaga we have to go back 84 years to 1936, however, to find the last time that ... not a single procession left its church. This year, faced with the cancellation of the entire week of public celebrations due to the coronavirus lockdown, the brotherhoods that organise the processions have turned their energies to the immediate

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Holy Week processions cancelled throughout the province

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There will be no Holy Week processions in Malaga this year. The organisation that represents the city's religious brotherhoods that organise the Semana Santa has agreed with the city hall and the Diocese of Malaga to call off the events to prevent ... the spread of coronavirus Covid-19. The decision comes after cities such as Seville and Cordoba suspended their processions on Saturday following advice from Spain's Episcopal Conference. "We have discussed the situation generated by the ... cancellation applies to the entire diocese, that is, all the towns and villages in the province of Malaga. "All three consider it responsible and necesary to suspend the Holy Week processions, as well as all the planned events leading up to them," it reads.

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Fears for Holy Week processions as major events are postponed

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...was likely to be severe as the country braced itself to see if early April’s Holy Week religious processions would be affected. On Tuesday, organisers took the decision to suspend the Malaga Film Festival which was due to start today, Friday 13. The ... brotherhoods in Malaga are starting to change their usual preparatory processions and rehearsals. The head of one brotherhood that put off an event this week said, “It’s a big responsibility and we prefer to cancel everything that brings together a lot of

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Beaches, parks and markets closed on the Costa del Sol

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...region. Semana Santa In Andalucía, where all schools and other education centres are to be closed for at least two weeks, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced the cancellation of next month's Holy Week processions in

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A pagan festival to mark the beginning of Lent

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...following Tuesday. Although Carnival probably arose from a pagan festival, it is celebrated throughout the world in mainly Catholic cultures. In Spain it is a very popular event with gaudy and ostentatious processions, satirical songs, drag queens and ... Manuel. The burying of the sardine takes place at around 5.30pm. Benalmádena The Carnival festival in Benalmádena has two big processions, the first is on 22 February starting at 5.30pm and will pass through the streets of Benalmádena Pueblo. It is

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

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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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The fiesta of the Virgen del Carmen remembers those lost at sea

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The Virgen del Carmen festivities will be taking place all along the coast on Tuesday 16 July, and this colourful, religious event is one of the most popular summer activities on the Costa del Sol. Processions in honour of the much-loved Santa María

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Carmen bathes the coast in emotion

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Residents in seaside towns and villages flocked to the shoreline on Tuesday evening for the annual processions of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (or the Virgen del Carmen), the images of the Virgin Mary traditionally seen as watching over seafarers. The ... had been booked weeks ago. More to come on Sunday On Sunday, 21 July, three important processions will take place in Malaga city, attracting many visitors and locals. On the central La Malagueta beach at about 11am, divers will bring up an

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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